Mega update.

Due to spotty internet coverage, weekend trips, academic nonsense, and mere drafts of entries--there is a clog in the works of my blog. This clog will be removed and a glut of entries will flow out at a startling pace. Be prepared.

It might make sense to scroll down and read an entry or two at a time and work your way up to the most present work. I am beginning with an excursion update and then going on to some commentary that has be brewing in my head and jotted in a paper journal.

This blog, which as you read earlier, serves many purposes. It began as an independent personal project and has expanded to fufill academic requirements as well. It also will live on when I come back for Europe as I begin to write some travel tips and must-dos and I am sure when a dull ache in my heart develops from missing this gorgeous city---it will be opened again and filled with memories.

So, read on, my friends. Enjoy.