A Post in Prose to Begin All Posts

This is the beginning of something new for me.

I find myself in a new state of life, and a new state of mind. ...and just a new state. A new blog, new goals, new efforts, new days, ...new mistakes. I can't decided if something being new, is always necessarily a good thing. On the one hand, something being new, is fresh; alive with potential and promise! On the other hand; new is inexperienced, easily blemished, and has just as much bad potential as it has good.

On a more surface level definition, the new state in which I find myself is Idaho. For about 4 months now, Moscow has been my home. Day in and day out, I walk the path of the student; struggling to stay focused, manage my time, make a good impression, and succeed in disciplining myself to live up to my potential. The tools that I use to do this vary, from caffeine, to a piano, to humiliation, to a pencil and straight edge. But there are basically four pieces of technology that consistently play a major role in my life. They are: The phone(by which I am communicated by loved ones, and faculty/students about school related items), the laptop(The medium by which I access the internet, and other misc. tasks), the iPod(keeps my calendar handy for me), and the Bike(gets me around).

The leaves have all fallen off the trees, the weather is getting colder, the days are getting shorter. This time of year is always very endearing to me. However, in almost twenty years of existence, I am also finding this to consistently be the hardest time of year.

Why is this? It seems like, being my favorite season, nearing my favorite holiday, my birthday, the return of eggnog, and a variety of other things that would tend to make this a more motivational and inspiring time of year for me, I would be at my prime... But that never seems to be the case. Oh well, I say.

This is the first post, of many to come... in varying frequency, and relevance. Stay tuned.