In three weeks, I will be leaving for a year to live in Khon Kaen, Thailand. I've never left the country before or lived outside of the Northeast US.
As this is the first post, I don't have much to say, except for some housekeeping related things.
1) Cough.
2) I just watched a hilarious episode of television. Will watch another soon.
3) I intend to edit posts long after I post them. [This line added on 10/23/2010]
4) Regarding the URL: For the first two years that I knew a certain friend of mine, "Red Curly" I'll call him, he loved coming up with ways to verbify (synonym: inverbinate) my name and insert it into conversation. Things like "Go Dave yourself" and "You really Daved that one, boy." One time, in response to his, "Man, you're really Daving the shit out of this room right now,
I laughed and said, "I'm Davin' dirrrty!"
He looked past me in puzzlement and said, "Mmmmm" as if to say, "No, this dinner has been great, Diane. I'm just so tired from the drive over."
Ever since that moment, I've chased the phrase "Daving Dirty" through strange, dark places because I want it to be cool so badly. I scream it out during nightmares, I've been told, like a ward against evil, and I whisper it under my breath when stroking house pets.
The first step in making this blog was to choose the URL, and the above phrase just dive-rolled onto the roof of my consciousness. After minutes of internal slow-mo fight scenes, I decided, "Hey, I can just tell people, 'Whatever, it was easy to remember, and I don't care if it's cool or not.'"
