The First of What I Hope Will Be Many

I find myself in the process of evacuating from MySpace. It's nothing against MySpace. MySpace taught me to love again or--at least--to blog a bit. But Facebook has proven so much more capable at the networking aspects--and the photo uploading aspects, curse MySpace to oblivion for their size limits--that I began to wonder if clinging to a rapidly calving MySpace Glacier simply because it has blogging capability is really worth it.

To judge from the fact that I am writing this post on Blogspot instead, I would say that I have decided it is not worth it. I will always remember MySpace with fondness. It represented an important phase in my life--much as the Betty Ford clinic might represent a 'phase' in Robert Downey, Jr.'s life.

Take that, Robert Downey, Jr.! Read my blog and tremble, celebrity-types!

This post is, I suppose, an inauspicious beginning, but a beginning nevertheless.

I turn in my MA dissertation today and tomorrow my wife and I depart for Romania. I am glad to be finishing the MA, and even more glad to returning (at least briefly) to Romania. In a couple of weeks when we return I may post again, may even tell people that this is here. We'll see.