Blog initiation!

This blog page looks lonely!

But, really, that's just because I was supposed to be the first to write on it. And I've put it off ... which is one of the many bad habits I'm trying to nix in the new year.

The point of this blog: to stay in touch/in sync with each others' lives, even as we inhabit vastly different spaces in the world. We are, respectively, three small dots on the map, like the pushpins you use to mark where you live or where you've been on a wall atlas. This fun metaphor also works for the act of marking one's progress through life (the map of living, if you will).

And now, onto my dot:
Currently, my dot inhabits a small liberal arts college outside of Boston, MA. It would like to wander into Boston proper more often, but it's continually thwarted by lack of time and/or abundance of inertia.
Past dots include: Orange County, CA; Guanacaste, CR; and some vacations (Hawaii, London, Philippines, Canada, Mexico, various northwest and northeast States of the United variety)
Future -- ??? (which is, perhaps, part of the motivation for starting a blog)

Because my school has a backward way of doing things, I just got flew back in early January to finish off my semester. So that means I have a paper to write and finals to study for, not to mention a senior thesis (with which to get passionately involved before its due date in March) and a future to plan. So--although I have already watched one movie for this paper and I have found out that I can apply to teach English in Bangladesh or be a tour guide in Madrid--there is much left to do.

So, my dear friends, have at it.

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MollieMox