*Facepalm*

I have not blogged in months. Can you blame me? I'm writing a dissertation. Since I last posted I have been in three countries and written many academic, intelligent sounding pages. I was home in America for almost a month and took my UK boyfriend all around the great states of MD, VA, some of Delaware, and just-as-great-but-not-quite-a-state DC, saw two beautiful weddings for two of my beautiful friends, came back to the UK, immediately left again to spend a few days in Berlin, and then, again, came back to the UK. Next week I move, so while I'm in the calm period in between adventures and grounded from going out with a cold that just won't leave, I guess I should say hi. Hi!

I think if I tried to go back in time for these stories I would be so bogged down that the pressure of it might keep me from posting. Also, I am sure that most of my readers either were there or talked to me while I was there at all of the recent adventures. So, I'll throw in some pictures and short stories (when I get the pictures, come on guys, hurry it up!) and until then I will tell you about my feelings for this blog.

I have been here for one year. AAAAAAHHH! On this coming Monday the new international students will arrive on campus, marking the one year anniversary of when I got on a plane and came to the UK, leaving America for the first time ever. Well, technically its a red eye flight, so I got on the plane on the Sunday, but whatevs. While I still find myself a cultural outsider making a few mistakes while learning by leaps and bounds, I have learned a lot over my time here. So what can this blog do for me and you now? I've told you about campus, I no longer take classes, everyone is all sorted on the differences between jam, jelly, and jello...

There are two things I want to do. I want to note the ways I have changed. This will mostly list foods I used to hate and now eat, and vocabularical expansions. Like vocabularical, though that isn't British, its Joish. So is Joish. The second thing is to document how I am changing. This will mostly be an account of my relearning how to get by in the world. A world with no dryers, tiny stoves rated in Celsius, cars that are backwards, on the wrong side of the road, and manual... I have some adventures coming up as I write my dissertation and learn to live a grown up life here in the UK, and I think it might be kinda funny. So, on this eve of the anniversary of my last weekend in America, like Lincoln did with his second inaugural address, I re-purpose this blog.

Shout out to me! I've been at this one whole year! eek!