You Say Goodbye, and I Say Hello

Is it a bird?  Is it a plane?  No, are you blind?  It's quite clearly a new blog.  Born from recommendation and subsequent coersion by several lovely people I count among my friends, I welcome you to the humble beginnings of Whalesong: my little place for rambling.  It's kind of like getting a packet of envelopes for your birthday - relatively unimpressive look at for now, but then you start to realise the potential.  You could use those envelopes to send letters to the Queen or something.  Not that Her Majesty's likely to read this, nor is it necessarily my intention to direct all future posts to her (for now), but you catch my drift.

With the arrival of new things, though, we wave goodbye to the old.  Some people are aware that I've had a blog before, this one, in fact, but look at the last time anything was posted there.  Over a year ago.  You could write and perform a play in that time, or take an entire undergraduate first year.  I should know, I've done both, and they were exceptionally fun.  To put the old blog into the new context my life has become would have been an awful lot of hassle, and that's not something I'm particularly keen on.  Besides, while I'm still interested in words their origins (I'm doing modules in it this year!), I felt there was much more I could/shouldn't write about, so I needed a bigger canvas.  That's what this is!

The old blog isn't the only thing I'm saying goodbye to, mind.  In that vast expanse of a year that's just gone by, I've made a lot of new friends.  We get on so well, as it goes, that two of them have decided to leave not only the country, but the entire continent.  They've made their excuses, "It's what I want", "I applied before we were good friends", or "I'm from America in the first place, I'm here on a study abroad programme", but they just don't fly.  Anway, thanks to technology, we're sure to stay in contact regardless.  Geography isn't a obstacle, it's a distal malfunction, or a proximity glitch.  A technicality, nothing more.  More fool my intercontinental chums, really.

So that's that: lots of exciting new things, and farwells, in some cases temporary, to others.  Still, there are plenty of "starting afresh" proverbs to justify the whole move, so it's all ok.  But enough of the goodbyes, what's there to say hello to?  There's plenty of interesting things that might happen in this blog now - I'm thinking reviews, musings, word origins ala old blog, and much, much more.  So, if you like reading the dense waffle of a reasonably unedited, unreasonably verbose mind... stay tuned!

TTFN!