The Prequel -or- For Those of You Who Don't Know Ben

          I remember when I was a wee lad in my Junior year of college and everyone and their mother made blogs so that "everyone could follow their adventures around the world."  I subscribed to dozens of essentially the same blog and paid half-attention to them for a handful of entries.  The lessons that I took away from this experience were twofold.  First, I don't care what existential life-changing discovery you made while walking along the Seine or getting stuck at an airport.  I'm happy that you're learning about yourself... but that knowledge does me no good.  And second, even if I had wanted to, I didn't have time to read a dozen blog entries every day.

          Moral of the story: throughout my undergraduate years, I found blogs to be lame.  Yet here I am, making my own blog as I open a new chapter of my life.  So allow me to be perfectly clear about my purposes for doing this thing:

1. I'm moving to Milwaukee later this summer and will be working as a Bilingual Teacher through Teach For America.  TFA recommends that Corps Members keep a journal or blog to maintain their sanity.  I enjoy my sanity, so there's that.
2. Making fun of Ben.

          That's all.  I have no other expectations for this blog.  That's not to say that you shouldn't read it... but I certainly have no delusions that lots of people will.  On the off chance that I develop some sort of a following, I'll try not to let my entries get long-winded so that they don't waste too much of your valuable time.

          So here we are.  Welcome to my Teaching in Milwaukee blog.  Nothing really gets going for a few weeks here, which means I still have most of my sanity about me (or at least something that slightly resembles it).  And so with that in mind, the rest of this entry is entirely devoted to Objective 2.

*Insert FRIENDS quote here* Now I'm too sweaty to continue writing.  I'm serious.  But not really.  Or am I? Now I'll take a 20 minute shower.  Or will I?  SORRY BEN!  Rango...

          More reflective and potentially serious posts to come... Cheerio.