Those of you who have known me for a while know my fierce battle against making my presence known online. I have almost managed to escape college without establishing a face-book page, and my myspace page has gone unchanged for the last three years (since I set it up at a friend's prompting). In my opinion there is nothing worse than hearing from that annoying kid I knew back in grade school, who somehow insinuated his way into my blog and is now convinced we are long lost best friends. Remember, it's not keeping in touch if all you do is read my blogs. That's called spying, and in spite of my many legal petitions, the US does not recognize online restraining orders. Point being: I need to hear from you from time to time as well.
That said, I know entirely too many people, many of whom are not about to die. I try to keep correspondence, both in person and through e-mail, with most of you. There are simply not enough hours in the day to keep track of all of you, even with my highly trained staff of bounty hunters, attack dogs, private assassins, and unicycle-riding circus bears (kept mostly to entertain the bounty hunters). In any case, I'll be using this blog to keep you all informed about my life overseas.
Although this blog could never replace the presence of my goofy laugh in all of your lives, my fondest hope is that you will persevere without me. For those of you who cannot do so unaided, I humbly offer this blog. For those of you who know it, write to my e-mail address. For those who this blog offends... lighten up, Seth. And if all of these still aren't enough to satiate your frightening obsession with me, feel free to come and visit me in La Rochelle.
