Hello…NSA? Russian spies? As of yet, no one else could possibly be looking at this new blog of mine. The only reason I’m churning out this hasty first post is that I couldn’t bear to leave the default WordPress template right on the front of something I hope to be proud of in a few months’ time. It was cute, but it alarmed my delicate sense of originality.

On the off chance that someone finds there way here other than my friends and family, I’ll introduce myself. My name is Nick Nurre and I’m starting up a blog so that I can record my thoughts and, hopefully, train myself to think a little more deeply. I’m currently a new college graduate, living in Macau (a Chinese territory) for a year-long teaching gig/cultural exchange thing, so people will probably expect me to write all about that, but I’m not so sure. Whenever I have spare mental energy, I ordinarily expend it thinking about something I’m reading, watching, or listening to rather than my actual surroundings, so this will probably turn into an art/media blog. But I’ll leave things pretty open. I’m not especially interested in gaining a following, so this blog will either become a dumping ground for whatever I want to talk about or fade into complete obscurity. It’s no use crying over abandoned webpages, after all.

Hopefully I get back on here soon. If I do, I might give a better statement of purpose for the blog. Not that this is grad school material, but I feel obliged to offer some kind of justification for doing something as indulgent as blogging, even if it’s ultimately just a digital diary for my own musings.

Do svidaniya.