I have been intending for this blog to be something more. It started as a Macaulalay College requirement, to post about my doings while studying abroad in the United Kingdom, and I think I’ve had mixed success. Certainly I got the blogging done, but I never managed a consistent pattern of posting.

But I’m trying to structure my life more this semester, at the beginning of my last year of Queens College. I have long-term plans that I need to sort out for myself, like what I’m doing next year, where I want to go from here.

For now I’m focusing on more short-term goals. Setting up my weekly gym schedule around my classes this semester. Study groups for BALA 303 and physics classes. Planning and cooking meals for the week. Cleaning up the apartment and keeping it that way. Making and arranging shabbos.

And working on my Macaulay thesis, because that’s something I want to try and get as close to finished as possible in a single semester, despite my lack of a firm idea.

I’ve been quietly recording a lot of my media habits on this on some of the pages. At this point, I’d like to just be able to keep track of the various books, movies and films I watch and read. As a media studies major, I want to work on the types of media I’m absorbing, as well as the “quality.”

With all of this, I’m hoping to set up a rhythm of posting at least once a week. Thoughts, musings, ideas. I could write about an episode of 30 Rock or my adventures in bug-catching, as the official bug-catcher of my apartment. This blog is going to turn into more disjointed rambling and thoughts on myself. At some point I hope to do a more thorough wrap-up of my study abroad experience, perhaps when comparing it to my time back at Queens.

And, of course, lots of experimenting with the layout of this blog!

The header right now is Caerphilly Castle, an enormous castle a short bus ride from the center of Cardiff. The background is another shot of the same castle, not that you can really tell from the way the current layout.

A screencap for posterity!