so what do you say in a first post...?

I've toyed with the idea of having a blog for a very long time now... and I've finally decided to just do it. Ah, what a risk, I know! :)

So I need to start by, well, starting, so I'll start small for now by making a list of the first five things that come to mind:

1) I am in love with the classes I'm taking this semester, and one of my favorites is with a professor of whom I was terrified until... about Thursday.
2) I'm in the middle of reading My Antonia (Willa Cather), The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), and Watchmen (Alan Moore) at the moment. And I am thoroughly enjoying all three.
3) Houghton is a beautiful place full of some beautiful people, and I'm still enjoying myself here immensely... but when the time comes to finally move on, I will be pleased. Five years will have been enough, and the memories and friendships with which I am left will be sufficient.
4) Luke and I have been reading children's books for story time nearly every night since the semester started, and my love for Peter H. Reynolds has been rekindled. He now has to share that space in my heart with Allan Ahlberg and Jon Agee. Well, Mo Willems too, but he's been surprisingly absent lately. Oh, the unfaithfulness of children's book authors... :)
5) Contrabass. In Sym Winds. I love it, rattling teeth and eyeballs and all.

A random list of five in honor of my random brain. That actually is a fairly accurate cross-section of my life right now.

I suppose this is a good enough start.