..1.. welcome to my blog

as a friend of mine recently pointed out, i have just departed from the tracks i have been on my whole life, and am free to go in any direction i like. considering i will have many adventures in the coming months (moving away from berkeley, road tripping across america, traveling southeast asia, and moving to boston for my first job), i figured i'd spare my buddies from mass emails, and let them check up on me when they felt like it - sans spam.