introduction

I thought I'd start a blog in the hope of forming my own (benevolent, indulgent, chuckling) Stasi. My days are largely unstructured, drive & initiative wax and wane, and I'm developing a fierce crush on Alton Brown. Huge swathes of time, little to no money, deepest winter and a 15 minute walk to the T. I think it will help spur me to productivity to know that people I care about may be checking up on me. Plus, as has been noted by my friend L, writing is writing is writing, and maybe writing begets writing, although I don't see why that would necessarily be the case, like the way in which my Secret Theory of Snow, which is that each winter there is a predetermined amount of snow that will fall and so each time it snows I can comfort myself that we're almost there, is untrue but helpful, so maybe the idea that writing begets writing will work in a similar way.

That was a lengthy explanation. Maybe it's working already.