The Journey Begins

Greetings, fellow slaves of the Interwebs!  If you're reading this, then chances are you're either related to me, or you have too much free time on your hands... bless you either way.  As you may have guessed from the  blog's title, I'm going to Singapore.  I'll be teaching English lit while making very little money (is there any other way to teach English lit?), which gave me an excuse this summer to reread Pride and Prejudice and wish once again that I was Mr. Darcy - not that I ever need a reason for that.  I love 19th century chick lit and my students will too, damn it!

But I digress.  I meant to talk about my upcoming relocation, which is a pretty big step for me.  For the last four years I was living it up in the Berkshire Mountains at Williams College, a school slightly bigger than your average matchbox, where my most difficult free will decision was whether to order mozzarella sticks or chicken tenders at snack bar, and my greatest fear was getting rejected by girls at parties.  Now I'm moving halfway around the world, where I'll face many new challenges that I could never have imagined up in my ivory tower.  According to my insurance brochure, for example, I run the risk of getting hit by a motorcycle, savaged by rabid dogs, mugged, and bitten by disease-carrying mosquitoes with a taste for white meat.  All at the same time.  And I'll probably still get rejected by women at parties.

Once again I'm getting away from my point, which is that when I imagine the next fifteen months of my life, all I can see is a tantalizing and slightly nerve-wracking blank.  For the first time in a long, long while, I have absolutely no idea what to expect.  Singapore is a fresh canvas on which to paint the masterpiece of my life so far - or not, since I shudder to think what punishment awaits graffiti artists in Singapore.

But if I can't splash my story in gaudy paint on the pristine streets and high-rises of Singapore, I can still post it on the Internet.  So if you're interested in learning a bit about Singapore, or listening to me lie outrageously about my adventures, then you know where to find me.