Finally Starting

This is the fourth time I've written this post. I feel like I'm standing outside myself, hopelessly watching as I slowly become obsessive compulsive. Is that normal for someone developing O.C.D.? Or maybe it's a good sign that I'm not developing it. Well either way, I know even as I write this that if I could very well rewrite this again, starting with "This is the fifth..."

This is a strange time to be starting a journal. The day has no real consequence except for the fact that I am finally starting. But that does have some significance, considering the countless hours I've spent searching for a proper, rugged leather book to hold my thoughts--one with those cool leather bindings, you know? Maybe that time spent and journals wasted will now finally have some meaning in context. They served as a sort of prolonged brainstorm. Or maybe this online version is just another future failed journal. Time will tell.

I have been teaching in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, China, for about four months now; and I wanted to have a place to put down my thoughts and view my pictures. A blog seemed like the best choice, though I know it's not exactly original.