Bind - Write

I haven’t frequently blogged in years. In 2003, I started my blog Firetrky. It was a place for me to vent about being bored on Friday nights spent at home, the absurd amounts of homework Mr. Siefring had given me and the poor decisions made by my volleyball coach. I continued updating it, albeit more infrequently, up until leaving for Senegal. I don’t like to read the archives anymore because I am embarrassed.

In Senegal, my blog has taken on a very different role and I’ve begun really writing again. I think the reason I blogged so much in high school was because I had a lot of time to think to myself on my subway rides home with headphones in or sitting awake in my bed at 2 in the morning. Here, there is a lot of time to think as well. At night during the week, there is not much to do and even less when the power goes out. When this is the case, I write. Or I think about what I want to write. Or I just think and then maybe write about it.

With my blog it is a way for me to let you all know I am still here. It’s a very odd concept that everything from Middlebury to my home to my friends to the Ad Store to New York City goes on without me. I also have been taking ‘too many’ pictures here. With an audience in mind, it helps me to edit them down. But above all I blog because I believe that if you care enough to want to read about what I’m doing I’d like to know what you’re doing. So, please, if you have my e-mail address, screen name or skype name (you can look me up on skype if you don’t have it already), I’d love to hear from you.