In Which I Create A New Blog

So here's what has happened in the past few months:

1) I left New York, travelled back to Greece and Serbia, taught a class full of wonderful high school students in Serbia, caught up briefly with some friends in Greece, but unfortunately returned home to New York early because of a death in the family. (That's one reason I never had a chance to connect with several of the wonderful Greek bloggers that I would very much have liked to meet. Next time?)

2)Got my passport stolen in the Athens airport on the way home. Oops! (Never put anything in your back pocket.)

3) Returned to my work with middle school students this fall in New York, started additional work as an SAT tutor and graduate classes in secondary education.

3)Became hopelessly obsessed with HBO in the form of Big Love and The Sopranos.

4) Decided it was time for a blank slate. So, without further adieu, I will introduce....drumroll please...my NEW BLOG. It's called "I promise to go wandering." The title is a misheard Bob Dylan lyric from Mr. Tambourine Man. I thought the song went "Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go wandering." Actually, the line goes "Cast Your Dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it." By the time I figured that out, I had already adopted "I promise to go wandering" as a sort of motto. I even listed it as one of my favorite quotes on facebook. And now, every time I get lost in Chinatown, my boyfriend gives me this incredulous and disgusted look and says "Well, you did say you promised to go wandering."
So yes, I promise to go wandering. Specifically, I promise to go wandering at www.ipromisetogowandering.blogspot.com. If I can't regale you with fantastic travel tales this time around (and believe me, I would if I could) I'll have to do my best to entertain you with thoughts about New York, school, the Sopranos, and cats. (Don't worry, they are entertaining cats.)