T-Minus One Day

Hello Blogosphere! I have to first admit that I feel a little uncertain about our recently formed relationship considering that not many introductions begin with terms of agreement that say my sponsoring website might have to hand me over to the government after supplying them with ample self-incriminating evidence. I think, then, that I will write like I am writing a journal entry with the insight that someone might be looking over my shoulder. So not too privately. Who knows? It might be just between you and me.

Now, the main plot of this, my blog, is to write about my going across the pond to jolly ol' England. I will most likely use this as a rough draft for my many journals that I have to sketch out, two, actually, and I can use this as easy reference for myself, as well as for, I suppose, others. Not too concerned about the latter when it comes down to it since I am only the least bit aware of your lurking presence.

Icebreakers aside, let us get it on. I'm writing with a five o'clock shadow and sore eyes. (Aye! There's a good, romanticized beginning. Yeah!) I have read voraciously preparing for the oncoming trip, including an inch worth of a poetry packet, novels, a play, and more some more poetry. Specifically, these are Shakespeare's As You Like It, Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Kennedy's Elegy: The New Critical Idiom, and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Happily, almost all of these have one thing conveniently in common: DEATH...or...MELANCHOLIA...or...ALIENATION, and, if you're lucky, DIPSOMANIA. Okay, not really, but that's what it seems like.

Quickly casting all of the others into a corner, my favorite by far has been Brideshead Revisited. With Sebastian, a morose drunkard that talks to his teddy bear because he misses his childhood and hardly relates to his family, what's not to like? That's really just scratching a surface detail, but I'll hopefully delve more deeply over course of practicing this genre.

Okay, being the early AM, I feel I have sufficiently blogged away for my first entry, and, if we are lucky, expect more to come!