Time for a Toothpick

I am going to Cambodia to teach at the Royal University of Phnom Penh as part of the Princeton in Asia program. It's a great side-step after college, because it gives me a good answer to the question, "So, what are you doing after graduation?" More importantly, however, dropping onself into a foreign culture delivers a badly-needed jolt to your perceptions of human nature, the all-important torquing of perspective that only deep travel can really bring.

While I am very enthusiastic about jumping into the great wide world of the Khmer, I'm still feeling out this whole internet thing. It's probably going to be a learning process, so bear with me as I figure out the whole blogging thing. I expect by the end of the year I'll have all sorts of sweet stuff piled up on here in a tasteful but functional design that maximizes my effectiveness while minimizing my hassle. But that's in a year from now. I do have a twitter, however, and am endeavoring to figure out how to plug that sucker into my bloggaria. Right now I'm just hoping to get this entry to appear. Wait, I need to have links, right? All good blog entries are filled with links, creating a sort of intertextual hypertext. Well, maybe that's my objective for next entry. Right now I just need to enter words that seem interesting to me. Trappings and fixin's are to follow, along with a more definite answer to the question of "who does this jerk think he is, anyway?"