Beginnings...

It's Saturday night and I'm beginning to feel excited - 3:20 AM - I can't quite get to sleep. I decided to create this blog in order to make use of my restlessness. Much is running through my head, and the journey to Europe is surprisingly not on the top of that list.

Hopefully I'll get up at a decent hour and get to OKC to visit Nathan. If there's one guy who knows Western Europe, it's Nathan. I should be able to learn much from his travels, though something tells me that the extent of his advice involves beer and stumbling. Surely such wisdom must be placed on the shelf next to the Bible and Chuang-Tzu. Each claim to bring a change of perception and true bliss - and so far one has been more consistent than the others, even if its effects are only temporary...

I'm ready to get away for a while. I'm not unhappy - just scattered. Very scattered. I know it has been a long school year, but most of the time I feel as if it passed as quickly as it began. Sometimes I wish it would never have ended. Regardless, it is time to leave these things where they sit, and to turn my focus to the hostel sheets which gently cradle a new perspective.