Mandatory Awkward First Post

For the next two months, until August 29th, I am effectively living the dream. I have a reasonable cash stipend, no job, no obligations and a whole city to explore. However, no great movie, nor great hidden urban gem, nor great book is worth much without a place to talk about it. Hence this blog. It's not necessarily meant to be read as much as exist and serve as a repository of thought and memory. The hope is that that in 2 month's and one day's time I don't look back and say "what have I been doing with my life?"