"When Words are Scarce, They are Seldom Spent in Vain"

I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that this is the first real blog I've had in years.

I flirted with Live Journal at the end of high school...mainly using it to rant about boys, talk about music I liked, and just procrastinate in general. I abandoned it in my first or second year at university, and have regretted exiting the blogosphere ever since. I always said I would start a new one when I felt like I had something important to say or when I finally took up my grandparents' offer of a trip to Scotland.

I graduate next week from Memorial University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Diploma in Professional Writing. On June 1st I'll be leaving St. John's to go to the UK for a month. I hope that six years of studying and 30 days of traveling my birthplace will inspire me to write. If it doesn't, maybe I should reconsider trying to become a journalist.

I called this blog "Nation of Procrasti" ("Procrasti Nation" was taken, unfortunately), just because I'd like to take the time I normally reserve for internet procrastination, and put it to better use than reading two weeks worth of Perez Hilton or looking at friends of friends' Facebook pictures. Oh come on, we all get curious as to who owns that cute baby or who went to Greece...