Saturday, 23 April 2016

Introducing Myself

“I've started a new blog” is a phrase my friends do not like hearing from me. It does not bode well for them. It certainly doesn't bode well for myself.
 However, circumstances have suggested that now is the time to start a new one. I've had seven blogs in the past nine years but I have a good feeling about this one, and good feelings can be valuable in a famine of happiness. Let me give you a little explanation of who I am and what this is- I am Ruby, grad student, oenophile, sartorialist (I think from the last two you can probably tell I was an English undergraduate). What this blog is...it's a way of making myself both productive and accountable. I will be posting hopefully 365 times for one year, posting as many entries as I can now to get some momentum, and it will be a collection of thoughts, essays, poems I've penned in the past (I no longer wax poetic), extracts from books I'm working on (or abandoned), fiction I've written already.
 [Hopefully this entry is not indicative of the quality of the blog as a whole]

One note about the name: It comes from a line in the great NBC TV series “Hannibal”

Dr. Hannibal Lecter: What you need is a way out of dark places when Jack sends you there.

Will Graham: Last time Jack sent me into a dark place, I brought something back...

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