What it Means to be a Delusional Dude

My pen name originates from a blog I decided to start a few weeks ago on a lark. Six years out of college, I was not missing academia per se, but missing the structure of having to write for my literature classes; I romanticize this memory, of course, when in truth I usually wrote my papers either the night before or day-of their due dates. Regardless, I booted up my laptop (which, in an iPhone age, I rarely do), and logged in to blogger.com. This was now the third blog I was attempting: my first, a travel blog devoted to the "day trip," ended after one poorly-penned post, while the second--a tribute to my late mother and a chronicle of saved text messages from the last year of her life--is indefinitely on standby. Alas, I decided the theme of my third blog should reflect these failed attempts at writing, along with my various other delusions of grandeur. Therefore, the name "Delusional Dude" became my adopted alias (as well as the link to my blog). Naturally, such a grounded and charismatic name was already taken on twitter, so I settled for @DelusionalDude1. Huzzah!