First

This blog mostly serves as a means to keep in touch with you folks.

I know that I didn't make much of an effort to stay in contact, but I feel I have legitimate reasons behind this. You've all experienced your first year of college. It's a huge, life-changing, monumental thing. And I don't feel that I could in any way do it justice over the phone or through Facebook wall posts. There's too much to everything that happens (or doesn't happen, if we're referring my personal life) to honestly and fully convey it all.

Now, I'm not trying to say that there's this great gravity or a particular profoundness to my post-high school adolescence, but it is something that I view as ... extreme, intense ... verging on the intangible. What I experience, how I feel and perceive things, is in a constant state of change, and to be fair, a text message just loses things in translation.

So in lieu of half-hearted phone calls or awkward five minute skypes, I'm making it my mission to keep you (and in a way, myself) updated on what's new and what's good, or not so good, with me. I'm aiming for honesty and humor and a general understanding, a feeling for and of my life.

Also, please don't think me too self-obsessed for having started this. I'm vain, but not delusional.