so this thing is dead, at least in the way I originally planned it. I was originally going to post pictures of people in Germany dancing, mostly because its funny but also because it's the kind of quirky idea that seems to dominate the blogosphere these days, or at least did when I formed my conception of the blogosphere (do people even say that anymore?).

Anyway I have changed my mind about this blog but have decided to keep the title because I like it. Instead I'm going to use this blog as a general non-project specific blog. Some of you may have read my other blog on blogspot, Ich steh' auf Berlin! which was about my experiences in Berlin for the spring semester of my Junior year. I may continue in the vein of project specific blogging in the future but for now nothing especially noteworthy is going on in my life. I stand at a key point in my life, I am about to leave that liminal state known as college that seperates the worlds of childhood and adulthood. I want to use this blog in part to record my experiences in dealing with the transition which has already begun to emerge in my mind if not necessarily my life. Apart from that I also realized that after years and years of having a livejournal I missed having a public place on the internet to write about my life, especially because I'm doing all sorts of neat stuff now. I wanted a place on the internet to just be me, without the expectation of a specific topic, such as life in Berlin (which to be honest is pretty banal to hear about sometimes when you don't have a lot of money, not that there's anything wrong with that) but that also didn't have the stigma of highschool poet turned full-fledged amateur whiner that is livejournal.

Thankfully I am not alone in my endeavors, my old friend Nathan recently relaunched his website in blog form and the results have been encouraging for me. Nathan found a fresh start with his website and now I've found mine with blogspot.

As for general topics, I plan on writing about the things I love like beer, music, food, grilling, the Astros, the Dynamo, my dog, German(y) and of course Grinnell.

I'm looking forward to writing in this thing fairly regularly, though like my Berlin blog updates will vary in frequency. If you want more regular contact I have facebook and email and a telephone.