The Course of Things

BOSTON - Here's the plan: keep a regularly-updated blog that will document and try to find a common thread through my planned adventures in Hong Kong, Wichita, Kansas, New York and finally Beijing. I'm not sure if there's necessarily something to tease out here, but I figure the best way to find out is to force myself to regularly write about the events in the places around me, and how the larger events in the world are impacting the way we are now.

I'm going to try, but at this point I really can't make any promises, to focus on the locality that I am in at any given moment. That's why I'm throwing up the dateline on each entry, as part of a larger experiment to see how where I am effects the way I write. We'll see how that goes.

The real meat of the blog should begin from the date of my graduation in late May, but I admit that I will probably be posting things from time to time before then. Since I've never had a blog before, consider it a "soft opening" before things really get going.

One more structural point: I've decided not to share this blog with anyone for now. I think in the future, after it's been kept for a few weeks or month, I might mention it to friends and family, but for now, nothing. There seems to be so much baggage that comes with "writing a blog" these days, that I want to keep things on the down-low for the meantime, and give myself the opportunity to back out at anytime. But of course, this being the Internet and a public and searchable blog anything might happen.

And that is what I'm hoping will.