Introduction

Hello everybody,

I hope that all of your summers have been happy ones--and I hope that all of you are prepared for them to reach their inevitable conclusions, because whether we like it or not, the end is drawing nigh. (Cue ominous music in the distance.) While I will soon be providing additional details about my summer, I simply wanted to explain that this blog will help me to keep my family, friends, and other acquaintances abreast of my adventures across the pond.

I have to confess that I am not the most conscientious chronicler of events. (What can I say? If there's no deadline, I have trouble summoning the ambition necessary to sit before a computer, develop, and then actually write a narrative.) Neither do I have the gift that all great authors seem to possess for making strange places and people live in the minds of their readers. I'll try my best to keep things current and interesting, and that's all I can do. I also promise that I will keep the self-pity and narcissism to a minimum.

In conclusion, I hope that all of you have a wonderful year here in the Land of the Free, while I am over there trying my best not to set Anglo-American relations two hundred years. I'll be in touch.

Best Regards,
~Chad