Flying High In The Friendly Sky

I am feeling incredibly disinterested about a lot of things right now, which I assume corresponds to a general calm before the proverbial emotional storm of leaving for Germany. I'm leaving for the airport in an hour. My bags are packed, I'm ready to go, I'm standing here, etc. etc.

Because I don't really have much to say, I'll put up a brief recap of my short stay in Boston, during which time I did pretty much nothing but rummage through boxes to find anything worth holding onto after my family's move. For the most part, there were slim pickings, but here are some pictures of priceless artifacts from my long lost childhood.

Yes, this is a kilt. For a baby. Technically, it's mine, but thankfully there is no photographic proof of that fact.

Apparently, I was quite the artistic photographer in fourth grade. 

This cassette is entitled "Sam's Favorites." It consists of three Blink 182 songs and 11 Weird Al songs. My brother and I had fantastic taste back in the day.

I repeat: Fantastic Taste!

So there's your meaningless pre-Germany post. Hopefully next time I'll be able to give you pictures of stouts and redheads. But for now, I have to go finish packing. See you in Germany!

This is Basically a Place Holder

My grand ambition with this project is to post at least once a day, so eventually this site will be pretty well populated with relatively uninteresting musings about my personal life. But at this moment it looks pretty empty, so consider this introduction an effort to eliminate as much white space as possible.

I'm about to embark on a six-month work stint in a small industrial town in Germany. I'll eventually make a post about my general expectations for the trip, but suffice it to say that I have never been to Germany before and have very little idea of what to expect. So the content of this blog will be greatly dependent on the nature of what exactly it is I'm getting myself into. Of course, there are some grand, Pulitzer-Prize-winning ideas circulating in my brain already, but I'll probably just end up posting a series of discussions of weird German food and bad song parodies.

My flight for Germany leaves tomorrow, which means you get one more day of posting bullshit before anything interesting starts happening. But for now I'll leave you with a before picture that encapsulates my general excitement for this trip, courtesy of my computer's very own Photobooth:

Look at how silly this picture is. That's not even what hair normally looks like!

Well, now that I've given you an acceptably light-hearted introduction and photo, I think I've adequately set the stage for the general merriment and hijinks that we're all in store for in the next six months. But seriously, I'm pretty excited. Auf wiedersehen!

- Nathan