Obligatory introduction.

Every now and then, I get on this zany tangent and think, "The world needs to hear me!" This usually happens during odd hours of the night when I'm not sleeping, when I'm desperately procrastinating, or both. This is one of those times.

I couldn't think of a good blog title, at the moment, so I visited this title generator site and what I got was "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel." It's fabulous nonsense.

I made a nifty little list in the right-hand column of some of my key interests (trying not to make it too lengthy). My primary occupations are dance education and narrative journalism. That said, I have a plethora of related occupations and hobbies, some of which are related and some of which aren't. For instance, I wound up teaching dance and writing for a newspaper because my first loves were performing dance and writing poetry. ;) I enjoy grassroots political activism, not because I aspire to a life in politics (I'm far too eccentric), but because I care about what happens in my country. I proudly volunteer for Barack Obama. I enjoy singing. I enjoy reading, especially philosophical novels and classic literature. I have a soft spot in my heart for homeless cats and I enjoy helping them. Lately, I've been more into watching television than reading, which makes me a typical American, except that I'm a nerd and my television viewing is almost exclusively comprised of sci-fi shows, political shows, and art programs. In other words, I get hundreds of channels on DirecTV so that I can devote most of my viewing to SciFi, MSNBC, and OvationTV.

That's me in a nutshell. So you'll sort of know what to expect out of my commentary.