Origin of "Street Knowledge"

I am going to start by informing all viewers, that this blog is not going to be a list of all the things that I do in a week. While this might be personally gratifying, it would tempt me to maintain a high level of superficiality (everything is too much to talk about). Plus, I believe that it is more entertaining to write thoughts, brilliant ideas, arguments, and particularly entertaining moments instead, I hope you agree.

Now I will go on to say how I came up with my blog title. This has been an epic process. I knew that I was going to start up a blog when I left Seattle so that I could pass on glimpses of my life to those not moving to San Antonio. But I didn't have a title for this forthcoming blog. Titles are important... why? (1) it shows how much prior thought you put into it, (2) it has the ability to set a tone, and (3) people are going to think about it EVERY time they read the blog. In my past blog I had a deadline (leaving for Croatia) and therefore put no creative thought into the name I gave it ("JessicaandRachelinCroatia"). This time I refused to make such a mistake.

Such a title is hard to find, it is a good thing that I had six months to come up with it. Prior to discovering the title "Street Knowledge" this morning, I only had one other option and it was deeply cliche ("everything and nothing"). "Everything and Nothing" was appealing because it blatantly expressed what I think I am trying to get at in my posts. A lovely mix of serious discussion and amusement. But its wording was too direct.

Contrastingly, "Street Knowledge" possesses no such problems and a million extra advantages. Advantages include (but are not limited to): (1) that I have just graduated college and therefore have been released to the streets to learn what I can, (2) that many of the factoids that I spout I attribute to the streets, (3) the title doesn't give the audience a false hope for authorial brilliance, and (4) I can start blog posts (if I so choose) with "What I learned on the street today."

So, I hope everyone enjoys reading my blog as much as I enjoy writing it.