Here we go!

Welcome to my blog! If you're reading this, it means you a). love and miss me, or b). are incredibly bored and none of the other, more interesting websites have been updated. This first post isn't too interesting, since I technically haven't embarked on my Australian adventure, but I thought I'd better get in some practice posts before the real thing. Hopefully this will work better than those long, boring, I'm-abroad-and-thus-will-recount-every-single-thing-that-happens-to-me-emails. I leave in approximately 15 hours: more exciting posts will follow, but to wrap this "test" one up, I'll leave you with a somewhat applicable quote I found in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

"The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path: and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him."