I'm a blogger?

Until a few months ago, I would have said the chances of me becoming a blogger were about as good as me becoming a high school teacher: laughable at best. Now, here I am researching teaching certificates and pondering a Master's degree in English education while writing my brand new blog. What happened to me?

The blog is the fault of my friends Sarah and Kathryn. Sarah decided she needed one because she was sick of the judgmental looks she kept getting from all of the other Journalism majors when they asked what the name of her blog was and she replied that she didn't have one. Kathryn got one supposedly to keep up with me while I am on the other side of the globe, but I think it's really to have yet another means of procrastination. Anyway, they got blogs so of course I got one too. What can I say, I'm what's called a "follower." There's nothing I love more than a good band wagon to jump on.

The teaching thing I really still can't figure out. Mostly I just can't think of anything else to do and I thought it would be fun to live out the cliche of being the young hipster who just uses teaching as a day job until I finish my novel. Plus, it's supposedly a recession proof job and my grades aren't exactly "good", so I can't really be expected to get any other sort of competitive job in this market.

That's enough for the distant future, let's talk about the near future and recent past. In 4 days I will be embarking upon my journey to 'Za Heaven, or Italy as I've heard some call it. All I have to say is this semester better be damned amazing after all of the guilt-tripping I've received from my friends and parents and the extra 3 weeks I had to spend at home after everyone else had already gone back to school. If you've never spent 3 weeks at the age of 21 with no friends or school or job to escape to with your parents, consider yourself blessed. Holy God in Heaven, I am about to rip my eyes out of my head. I won't go into detail, but it has been painful to say the least.

I'll be going now, maybe next time I'll give you a detailed outline of some of the people that are sure to appear in this blog more than once. You know, just so you're not confused.