Well folks, I'm baaack. Probably. Hopefully. Perhaps we can keep it as a noncommittal maybe until my blogger sea legs fully return. Honestly, I feel like I should be entering a blogger confessional right now, seeking penance in a dark, oak-scented ancient computer room for the nearly two-year hiatus I have taken from this site. In fact, I think I will probably not tell anybody about the said revival until I've managed to eke out a post from across the pond.
A little more than 24 hours from now I will return to Istanbul to begin a 4-month Turkish adventure. My co-stars on this adventure will be the ever-impressive Trevor Layman, his witty Romanian flatmate Dumi, and the civil liberty rockstars at the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, where I will be interning during my stay. They, along with countless other individuals, will become integral parts of my new, semi-permanent Istanbulian life.
My plan is to observe and participate in equal measure, master Turkish (or at least not butcher the language too badly), and gain some much needed perspective before I return to the U.S. in the summer to prepare for grad school in the fall. I cannot begin to imagine what the next few months have in store for me. There will surely be shrugs and hugs, definitely some plush Turkish rugs, possibly pugs, and definitely not drugs (hey, I've seen [the preview for] Midnight Express [which has been on my Netflix queue for an impossibly long time).
Stay tuned and stay in touch. Telepathy is my preferred method of communication, but, if your psychic powers are out of shape, e-mail should work just fine.
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