Every saga needs an origin...

Hello select few who know about this blog,

So, in the time honored tradition of complete nerds with too much time on their hands, I have decided to try and keep an online record of my life. It feels quite weird succombing to the temptation of slapping my life on line. Like thousands of other geeks and exhibitionists, I feel the time is right. Maybe it will be good for my mental health - my therapist seems to think writing about your problems is a good way to realize what they are and to start dealing with them. I don't know if I agree.

I have always felt that the weirdest people I have met have been those who keep journals. I think spending too much time in your own head is unhealthy. Our minds are the greenhouses for our neuroses, and tending them and watering them only serves to help them grow, consume all available resources and break through our face, rendering us as hideous plantlike parodies of Swamp Thing. Or, as the rest of the world sees us, 20-somethings.

Yes, I believe I am having my quarterlife crisis a few years early. Grad school and living in the states has taken its toll on me and turned me into a crazy man. Or a drama queen. One or the other. In either case, I feel that I have to develop an avenue for expressing myself, and since the beautiful yet complex language of math can actually prove that self expression is infact, completely imaginary, a blog seemed like a good start.

So, I intend to present my thoughts here is a completely unorganized, slightly spaz kind of way. And since all you lovely people know me well, that shouldn't come as any surprise. Topics will come and go, my opinions will probably self conflict, but hopefully - if all goes well - it will at least provoke a thought, giggle, or desire to send me anthrax in the mail. Enjoy!!!