District Beginner: September 2004

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Monday, September 20, 2004

Testing the envelope.

number zero

Blog inception yesterday, actually, and I have already altered this one post a number of times. Since it is boring and useless, I should just delete it, but it is a reminder, of sorts, when this was at least conceived, even if it is not the true beginning of this. Over the time spanning from this entry until the next, I have honed the look of things to my temporary satisfaction, and then waited for my planned grand entrance: Sunshine's Flag Day where we will both discover where we will be shortly living.

...until then, there will be very little to write about.

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It's that time again. Beginner headquarters is picking-up house and relocating back to the United States on July twenty-fifth, 2009, to enjoy a month at home with family and friends. By the end of August we'll have set-up a semi-permanent household in Washington, DC, near the Cleveland Park metro stop on the red line. [DC metro map] Then, sometime after Labor Day, our boxes and boxes of stuff should catch up with us. After that it'll be smooth sailing till sometime in July 2010, when we will be moving abroad again, this time to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina for a little real winter.

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The permanent mission of this web journal is to offer interested people (friendly, strangerly, or family) the opportunity to keep abreast of my distant circumstances without my having to ever resort to the kind of mass-emailed impersonality I really detest when sending or receiving letters. Comments are always welcome, although I request they be emailed to me directly at the address provided below. While I am dedicated to this method of detailing my experiences, the things I learn, and the oddities of this weirdo life; it has become obvious that I work even slower than life happens. A good anecdote is percolated from formative experience(s), ruminated over, looked at slowly and thoroughly. Patterns are discovered in retrospect, themes resonate. Only then am I able to hew some sense from life, to hammer happenstance into narrative logic one halting bitter keystroke at a time, two fingers dancing a Morse tattoo. This means that I work at a pace ever more divorced from an ever more pretentious timeline. The longer articles appearing here do so intermittently and often wishfully dated when they happened, sometimes months before I actually wrote them. Mea culpa.

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