Welcome!

Hey all. I assume if you're reading this you're interested in following my travels, or for one reason or another find my opinions on various issues meaningful enough to read them. So I suppose I'll start out with a bit of background about the blog and what I want to do with it.

Late this past spring I decided that I would keep a blog detailing some of my experiences abroad in Egypt this coming fall. It should make updating people far easier than calling them and make my trip more accessible to those who are interested in it. This was the initial purpose, and it should remain the focal point of my blogging for the next six months or so.

I've had a cursory interest in blogging for a while now and considered starting my own at various points over the past two years, but now has been only time I've felt particularly driven to do so. Seeing as how I hope to make this more of a long-term project, I'll also be writing my opinion on various subjects or posting articles I find interesting so as to give the blog a little more life and stretch its usefulness out past the fall. I'll write occasionally about issues that make me think too much or about which I find myself arguing with brick walls and thus find little means of gratification outside of this blog. They'll primarily be social or political in orientation, though there might be the occasional piece that's a little different if the mood so strikes me.

So with that, I welcome you to my blog! I do welcome comments, and I'll respond as soon as possible to those worth dignifying (:P).