Byzantine

So...I am taking a leaf from my cousin's book (and co-opting her blog title) and have started my own blog to keep my family and friends updated on what I will be doing for the next year in high altitudes (more specifically, in Greeley, Colorado as an Americorps VISTA).  I know my layout might seem a little intimidating right now, but don't let that discourage you.  It's meant to correspond with my feelings about starting a blog, which are a bit dramatic.  Virginia Woolf said something very specific about writers being self-conscious, and I'll second that here in defense of my own difficulty of putting anything into words.  That being said, I know that I will have a lot to share in the coming year, and I hope that this will be able to serve as a forum for sharing it.  Still, problematically, the last complete thing I wrote was my senior thesis, and I can't seem to get that style of writing out of my head...but I think (or hope) that I will eventually get the hang of this and be able to change my layout from "Greek tragedy" to something a little bit more accommodating...