Who is John Galt?

Towards the beginning of the summer, I changed the name of my blog from "Living Under A Rock" to "Who is John Galt?" It was not without a lot of consideration and internal debate. I still do like the original name of my blog, but I felt that WiJG was very appropo at the time. So, I changed it. At that point in my life I was unsure of some of the most basic elements of my future- my relationship with my boyfriend, what I was going to be doing and where I was going to be a year from now freshly graduated from college, etc. All these big life questions with no clear answer. Hence "Who is John Galt?"
The part about my boyfriend resolved itself, but the part about my future is still uncertain. So, in my mind, I've formed a bond with the illusive Mr. John Galt and I'm hoping that by the end of the book I will have some kind of catharsis. It's happened to me before, I've formed bonds with characters in books, or with plotlines and have experienced an emotional purging by the book's end. Two books of particular note are "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien and "We the Living" by Ayn Rand. Two radically different styles, but they spoke to me at the time of reading them. I'm hoping John Galt will do the same for me.

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

Dear Readers of my blog,
I want to take this time to thank you so much for all your comments and feedback the past year. I started this blog after taking a class on war literature. One of the books we read was "My War Killing Time in Iraq" by Colby Buzzell. He kept a blog while he was in Iraq and later turned his blog into a book. Now he's kind of a Gonzo writer. I originally intended this blog to be socially satirical since I was someone who is rather oblivious to popular culture and what I am aware of, I don't particularly like. Hence the somewhat ironic title "Living Under a Rock". But I've noticed I need to work on improving my writing to make the satire a little more specific.
The URL was a statement of where I was in my life at that time. I was for some unbeknown reason, I was thinking of the movie title "Love in the time of Cholera" and from there I was thinking about how I was in love during a time of war and I was thinking "Love in the Time of War" but that was too long so I shortened it to "loveinwar". I still think it's a very nice juxtaposition in an abstract sense even though I have personally gone onto a new stage in my life- one that includes neither 'love' in the deeper sense or war.
I also intended this blog to be very anonymous- no personal stories, no identifying information, etc. Somewhere along the way, that has changed. Now this blog is kind of a public diary for me. A place where I can organize my thoughts and then share them with the world. I'm also surprised I've been able to keep this blog fairly well updated. Go me!
Happy birthday my little blog. May you and I grow together and never forget where we have been. To my readers, thank you for your support, comments, and I hope you guys keep reading my thoughts and ideas and sharing yours with me.
Love,
Maverick