these deep city lights

So this is it.
It is three weeks before I walk across a stage and am handed a sheet of paper stating that I have completed a degree in a field that I had not even known existed four short years ago. My response to this significant event? Blogging.
My graduation from college is not really the pomp and circumstance that one might expect, so don't get your hopes up just yet. I'll be moving a mere four blocks from my current residence in university housing and continue attending classes, just with a new status. Graduate Student. With a capital S.
My intentions here are to record and archive my journey as it begins now. I'm experiencing a lot of "lasts" as can be expected, but more exiting are the "firsts". Which I'm still waiting for.
I hope that this blog will help me reach out to friends and family as we spread ourselves even further across the country and the world. And as new and exciting people enter my life, I wish that they might use this to get some insight into my often quiet and reserved personality.
Later today I will be performing in what might potentially be my last jazz band performance ever. And it did not hit me how upset I am about this until just now as I was typing it. This is what my blog should be. Somewhere to write words and preserve memories and emotions of a place in time, and a way in which to make things real. If I write it, it will be real and I will have to face and deal with it.
So that's why I'm here. Hope you come along for the ride...