Getting my Feet Wet

Hm. So this is what it feels like to blog, huh? I remember back when blogging was the ultimate in middle-school overdramatics, back when people used to tearfully impress declamations of their love for various fourteen year-old boys or girls into the not-so-secret-and-discrete bosoms of online diaries, and I certainly remember vowing to never post my most personal feelings over the internet, but... well shit. Times change I suppose, because this here blog, which, I admit, will mostly just be a compilation of my favorite anime porn websites, will otherwise serve as a window into my soul, a comprehensive mapout of my emotional state, a public declaration of my deepest and darkest secrets. In short, everything you never really wanted to know.

Gotcha. I kept a private journal the last time I was in Japan, and even that was emotionally stunted, so I don't suppose I'll be posting anything too racy or embarassing on this publicly hosted one. However, you never really know. Well, this first post is turning into something of a mission statement, but as I sit here in my kitchen, T-minus like 4 days from shooting off into the white and red curtained East, I think that's appropriate. I'm figuring things out as I go along, and this seems like a nice way of helping that process along.

So, what am I going to write in here? I'm thinking everything. Funny stories about cultural misunderstandings, reports upon the state of the Japanese educational system, perhaps reviews of my favorite Bed and Breakfast's/all-night Manga Cafe's. It's all fair game. However, in addition to that I'm thinking about trying out something a little more risky: though I always feel like a fairly massive darsh referring to myself as a "poet," I have written a lot of poetry in my day, and because most everything I have ever submitted to various literary publications has been summarily rejected, I think from time to time I will publish them here myself. That's one way to beat the critics, I suppose. The coolest part of this whole thing, however, is the interactivity of it, so feel free to tell me what kind of stuff you guys want to hear. I'm certainly writing this for myself, but if I didn't want to involve all of my friends then I could just scribble my thoughts in a notebook that I keep locked in a drawer in my desk. So let the fun begin! I feel sad that I have to go away and leave everybody, but the beauty of the information age is that I don't have to seem as far away as I really am.

(To my family: I apologize for mentioning Anime Porn. I promise I don't really like it. It's just that it's sort of an inside joke/ a curse I've unsuccessfully tried to shake for some time now, and failing have decided instead to embrace. Maybe I'll tell the story of how it all started later.)