About Patrick
Twenty-Something is the personal blog of Patrick R, a twenty-seven year old gay guy who was born and raised in Vermont. After spending the last six-and-a-half years in Burlington, and most of his life in Vermont, he left the state in June 2006 to pursue life outside the Green Mountains.
Growing up in Rutland Town, Vermont (mostly), and coming of age in the 90s, Patrick struggled for years to acknowledge and understand his sexuality. After much angst, he came out his senior year of high school in a blaze of gay rights activitism, making real change at his school and even making it into Vermont history.
As a senior, Patrick also served as Editor-in-Chief of "The Red & White," Rutland High School's student newspaper, and wrote for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rutland Herald while still a teen. In 1998, he won the Kansas City Star's Ernest Hemingway Writing Award for Commentary. His winning editorial, "A Silent Injustice,"' he described how gay teens silently suffered harassment and abuse at Rutland High School.
Patrick studied journalism for one year at The University of Rhode Island but eventually graduated from The University of Vermont (UVM) in 2003 with a B.A. in English. He spent his first three years out of college still at UVM, working in Student Life, until he abruptly quit in the Spring of 2006.
After spending a summer among the "concrete and flesh" of Manhattan, Patrick moved to Boston in September 2006. After living in three of his favorite places in the world in just one year, he is happy to have settled in Beantown... at least for now.
He hopes to pursue his M.F.A. in Creative Writing before the end of the decade, but who knows? He is always trying to figure out "the next step" in his life as a twenty-something, whatever that may be and wherever that may lead him...
Growing up in Rutland Town, Vermont (mostly), and coming of age in the 90s, Patrick struggled for years to acknowledge and understand his sexuality. After much angst, he came out his senior year of high school in a blaze of gay rights activitism, making real change at his school and even making it into Vermont history.
As a senior, Patrick also served as Editor-in-Chief of "The Red & White," Rutland High School's student newspaper, and wrote for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rutland Herald while still a teen. In 1998, he won the Kansas City Star's Ernest Hemingway Writing Award for Commentary. His winning editorial, "A Silent Injustice,"' he described how gay teens silently suffered harassment and abuse at Rutland High School.
Patrick studied journalism for one year at The University of Rhode Island but eventually graduated from The University of Vermont (UVM) in 2003 with a B.A. in English. He spent his first three years out of college still at UVM, working in Student Life, until he abruptly quit in the Spring of 2006.
After spending a summer among the "concrete and flesh" of Manhattan, Patrick moved to Boston in September 2006. After living in three of his favorite places in the world in just one year, he is happy to have settled in Beantown... at least for now.
He hopes to pursue his M.F.A. in Creative Writing before the end of the decade, but who knows? He is always trying to figure out "the next step" in his life as a twenty-something, whatever that may be and wherever that may lead him...
Site History
The blog "Twenty-Something," also affectionally known as "20sum," began in 2004.
Originally a very sporadically updated (and largely unread) EasyJournal site, it then evolved to the Blogger platform in the fall of 2004. The Blogger site, crash0628.blogspot.com, was home to 20sum for a year and a half, until it upgraded to Movable Type platform in 2006 and finally moved in at this fancy domain name, 20sum.com.
The blog's title is inspired by the Jamie Cullum song "Twentysomething" (from his excellent 2004 album of the same name), a would-be theme song for life post college. [ Download (iTunes) | Lyrics ]
Originally a very sporadically updated (and largely unread) EasyJournal site, it then evolved to the Blogger platform in the fall of 2004. The Blogger site, crash0628.blogspot.com, was home to 20sum for a year and a half, until it upgraded to Movable Type platform in 2006 and finally moved in at this fancy domain name, 20sum.com.
The blog's title is inspired by the Jamie Cullum song "Twentysomething" (from his excellent 2004 album of the same name), a would-be theme song for life post college. [ Download (iTunes) | Lyrics ]