Well folks, I’ve wrestled with my inner Luddite and started a blog. I suppose this is what they call progress. In any event this ‘progress’ seems to have been inaevitable and the blog was the lesser of two evils (the other, of course, being Facebook). I’ve been blessed with a bunch of really good people in my life but knowing myself as I do, I’m almost positive I won’t be able to keep them all satisfied with respect to what’s going on in jolly old England. While I’m not egocentric enough to believe that people will be better off by keeping track of my comings and goings, I do know that there’s a certain degree of interest in all things foreign so I’m trying to satiate that curiosity in the most efficient (albeit relatively less personal) way possible: the blog. A good friend of mine did his Master’s in Belgium and his blog seemed to serve him (and all the rest of us left in Canada) well. So there you have it. The marginal benefit of blogging (i.e. keeping in touch and assuaging my mother’s fears that I may have met an untimely end at the hands of the pigeons of Trafalgar Square) exceeds the marginal cost (i.e. swallowing my pride and entering the 21st century).
I’m not really sure how to approach this so I think I’ll probably try to come up with a weekly post. No promises, but that’s the plan as of now. Since I’m admitedly a novice at all this I’d really appreciate your feedback because, in all honesty, I’m doing this more for you than I am for me. You may as well tell me what it is you like or what you’d like done differently (e.g. more pictures/less social commentary, etc). If I don’t hear from anyone I may just assume no one’s reading this and decide unilaterally to pull the plug on the whole thing (yes, that was a thinly veiled threat...I’m sure you’re all quaking in your boots now.)
Well, that should do it for an introduction, besides I have to go check my bags for my hop across the ‘Pond’. (I’m in the Vancouver airport right now. How’s that for my first forray into the blogosphere?) Stay tuned for something of substance and –drumroll please- PICTURES. If I can figure out how to do that...sigh.
Graham, out.
5 comments:
You jest and make fun of me!!! Those pigeons can be very, very ferocious..... Oh, and look both ways before you cross the street-remember to first look to the RIGHT! (That's another untimely death worry, along with the lack of nutrition in jujubes and cookies...)
Love, Mom
You jerk! how dare you threaten us. We got you there in the first place >=O......principally me :3...ANYWAY you have to keep blogging ot else I'll spam your e-mail! turned the tables around on you pretty quick. No one's really adopted your room yet much to my surprise actually O.o kinda like on ur mission I'm sure that won't last. Maybe I'll make a commercial for you saying:" for only 5$ a day you could keep your room in a liveable state for when you return." ;D It's crazeh once you left it was like Christmas! you left behind so much stuffs I'm like "Mine now" hahah but your shoes are almost too small -__-"....almost; now I can have a Graham outfit. your shirt, your pants, your shoes and your socks....I'm stoppin at undies for reasons of hygene and just plain morals. I best be goin to bed I have seminary tomorrow at church so I'll commen later.
Besides you and Noah Webster, the only other person I have heard use to word assuage was Emily Dickinson (They say that "Time assuages" - / Time never did assuage - / An actual suffering strengthens / As Sinews do, with Age) ... don't think of that poem when/if you start to get homesick. That's my one dimensional English comment on your blog.
Congrats on being the best-dressed man in London.
I had planned on welcoming you into the 21st century when I realized that I did not have a blog, and if anything, you were much further afield with all this technology stuff than I am. Instead, I will simply congratulate you on your adventures in blogging, and caution you to avoid the windmills. :P
In a related note, I fear that whether intentionally or not, I am becoming more like you everyday as I too used the word "assuage" on Friday. On a completely different internet forum on an entirely unrelated issue, but nonetheless, I was quite taken aback.
Hope your bags made it across the pond as well as you did. And the moving and settling process was not too taxing. I look forward to your next post.
Sincerely,
Lincoln
Graham!!
How are you? I was at Hairspray with Kirsten on Saturday and she told me you had a blog! So fun! I am having fun reading your adventures!
Your room reminds me of my hotel room when I was in London- but I think my hotel room was smaller! lol
I am very jealous of you (except the school part) lol
I hope you have an awesome time! Things here with Roberto are going well.
All the best in school and have fun!!!
We miss you!
luv
Jamie:)
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