Hello!

Though I've experimented with various forms of journaling and blogging several times, I've never managed to keep a properly consistent chronicle of my life and various adventures and activities. My first diary, though I certainly prefer to refer to it as a "journal," was a gift from my mother or sister ( I can't recall) for my eighth birthday. I began it in June of 1996, and for the next ten years or so, sporadically updated it every few months or years. In college, I rededicated myself to it a bit, and over the past three and a half years, I managed to finally fill nearly all of its remaining pages. In short, it took me thirteen and a half years to fill an approximately one-hundred page diary.

One of the many reasons why my first physical journal took over thirteen years to complete, is that in high school, like the rest of "the youth," I began keeping an online journal. My first was a journalspace account that has somewhat thankfully been lost to the ages. Like most of my friends, I eventually migrated over to livejournal, where I maintained a somewhat regular chronicle of my high school experience - band, jazz band, friends, trombones, duck cake, and lack of sleep. In college, my desire to write online began to fall away, and I once again returned to my childhood journal, finally finishing it a few weeks ago.

However, as the title and description of my journal may imply, as of this past Wednesday, I am living and studying in Scotland, at the University of St Andrews. As this is possibly the very most exciting thing I have yet done in my short life, I feel that is necessary and proper to keep some sort of an account of my experience. This blog/journal/chronicle/rainbow-wonder-machine (blog just isn't a very pretty word) will be one part of my multimedia/faceted/pronged approach.

The current title of my blog is a reference to one of the many exciting culinary delights I have seen advertised around St Andrews. Though I have not yet experienced the unquestionable amazingness that is the Haggis Panini, I expect this to change soon.