Well, here we go...

I've been feeling a particular itch lately. I thought I had nailed it down as the writing/blogging itch. But I thought:

"Naaaaaah, that's silly. What have you got to say in a blog? 90% of what you do is sit at home working on your degree. And writing? Bitch, please. You write all freakin' day. You're writing a damn book right now."

 So what could this itch be? I sat on it and I thought on it and I came to this conclusion... my original gut feeling was right. Damn it all. At nearly 32 I should know to trust my gut no matter how silly it feels. To be fair, I wasn't wrong with the rest of it. My life is not particularly thrilling right now and I do spend quite a bit of my life writing. I am currently at the very tail end of my doctorate degree and *god willing* I will be done next semester. So, yes, most of what I do is write and read. All the live-long day. However... a great deal of what I'm doing is not "creative" or exciting writing, despite my doctorate being in THEATRE (← see how dramatic that degree is?) and the fact I am studying in Hawai'i of all places! And after 6 years none of what I'm working on is exactly new.
So what I was missing, what that annoying itch was all about was indeed the need to write. To write and design a blog. Maybe not a life changing, world shaking, fashion shifting blog. But something that gives me a bit of joy every other day or once a week or perhaps once a month. A distraction that somehow still seems productive. So yes, that is what I am doing here. Right now, if ya can believe it!?!

So, to quote my favorite Doctor...

Allons-y!