A GRAND COMEBACK

Yes it's been (practically) forever since my last post. I don't feel the need to dwell on tedious details of my personal life at the moment-I flatter myself that any cares :p-but instead want to create a new trend that was on my Summer List (of which I have yet to complete a single item!!). I can't even find my list at the moment, something like item #7: Create a blog and post one new learned thing per day!

I decide to suddenly do this with scarcely more than a month left of summer vacation (more than a month? you might say, yes well I have three months of vacation) based on several reasons, which I will state in a list (if you haven't figured out yet I am a fan of lists then you are a moron, also I am a BIG fan of parenthesis commentation....also, making my own words up).

1. My dad becons me over and proudly points to a new laptop he has just bought. Toshiba Satellite C655. "I will GIVE this to you. All I want is your old laptop (virus-ridden, 10 minutes battery operated, fan rattling old thing)...oh and $300 bucks." A new laptop for .3k? Excellent! (I come to find he bought it for only $400, are good laptops really that cheap?) So this sexy new beast, completely virus-free, quick-speed browsing, perfect, is dying for more attention than...
2. World of Warcraft. It has sucked up my time. It has caused relationship breaches (extremely pathetic and sad, yet true none the less). I feel I'm getting stupider. I don't read any more. We don't go for lovely walks in the summer evening heat. We just play and then argue.
3. Summer requires Anne Rice, no exceptions. What better atmosphere to read about the mysterious heat, flower laden scents of the New Orleans vampire than my own summer heated evenings, naked on the couch, the Builders and the Butchers wailing in the background, sipping on neat spiced rum or peach flavored sun tea? AAAND what better inspirations to write about myself than the dark and articulate musing of the Brat Prince himself?
4. And the last reason I decided to tack onto the end here, because I just realized it, I am laboring the write this. I used to be so eloquent! A master of words and synonyms, witty comparisons and poetic prose. It's time I return to a past-time I have enjoyed and dabbled in since first grade...writing.

So these elements combined to create what I wish to make my blog into:

Newly learned item #1? The Faroe Islands! Where are they located? What's their appeal? What languages are spoken?

They are some small, arrow-shaped islands north of Scotland and in between Iceland and Norway. Faroese is the official language, with a heavy influence from old (Viking) Nordic, which were the first settlements, but is now controlled by Denmark. These islands were created from volcanic rock/basalt, with a colder maritime climate very similar to Norwegian coasts.

Why did I choose the Faroe Islands? Well to be honest (which you can ALWAYS count me to be, especially on my own blog, whyever would I lie? sheesh), I didn't have anything better at the moment. But the point is to learn new things, and I happened to be browsing a favorite community site of mine and there was mention of said islands, I had no idea where they were located, though as soon as I looked it up I remembered searching this information before, and what better thing to post than what I had just newly learned. *Sigh* it may surprise you that a lot of work went into creating this post , I haven't done something like this in quite a while, but you can expect my posts to be overall more informative and knowledgeable, full of click-able links and images. Plus what I am currently listening to. Alas! Music is the physical gateway to the immaterial of feelings, spirituality, and mood.

Current Music: Shannon's mixes

p.s. I am an applied linguist, referencing is the name of the game for us, but I am ever the lazy person, all of the information I gathered is from the linked website. I avoid copyright issues. The images are from google search.