Give to me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above,
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread I dip in the river -
There's the life for a man like me,
There's the life for ever.
~Ralph Vaughan Williams, "The Vagabond," Songs of Travel
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So I'm not a terribly creative writer. I'm pretty good at writing research papers
and memos and poems.... and that's about it. So hopefully you'll read this blog
over the next 7-8 weeks and not get bored with it. Also, hopefully I won't get
bored with writing it.
Additionally, this is the first blog I've had since I had a... wait.... what were
those things called that we all had when we were in middle school? Was it
Livejournal, or is that much more recent? Anyway, I had some kind of pre-blog
era blog, and it was probably whiny and I would probably hate myself if I read
it now.
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So, if you've gotten this far and you're wondering why you should read this
blog, I'll tell you!
In 2 weeks, I'll be leaving for a 5-week-long backpacking trip around Europe.
Pretty freaking awesome, right? When I tell people that, they usually say stuff
like "OMG THAT'S AWESOME" or "OMG SO JEALOUS" or 'OMG I WISH I WAS
GOING WITH YOU." So, for all those people - you can! Sort of. By reading my
account of my trip through this hopefully-not-horrifically-boring-blog.
Updates will be made as major planning for my trip progresses, and they will
definitely occur more frequently when I'm actually travelling. And then maybe
a week or so of debriefing. We'll see.
For now, peace out. And word up to Insomnia Cookies for paying me to sit here,
answer an average of one phone call every 30 minutes, and begin to entertain the
world with my eloquent writing.
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PS - It totally was Livejournal. I requested my username through an old email address
I used to have and looked up my account. And I was right, I do hate myself a little bit
for the things I wrote on it.
