Hey y'all

No, I don't say "y'all"... despite the fact that I've lived in Tallahassee for the past four years (welcome to the Bible Belt!).

I told you that I'm getting my Master's degree in the Netherlands, and that's not a lie! I just haven't left Florida quite yet. I will arrive in the Netherlands at the end of this month (August 2014), but I thought it would be nice to give you a little introduction to me and my blog before I transitioned to Europe.

To be honest, I really wish I could start this blog in its mid-life, which is often what I think of romantic relationships too. Can we skip all these introductions and flirtations and just get into the nitty-gritty of it? 

To start, let me tell you about my current background image. It's a cat butt courtesy of Vladimir Putin. Why did Putin draw a cat butt on a white erase board at a middle school in Russia? I have no idea. But it's hilarious. And it now accompanies a portrait of Vladimir Putin painted (very poorly) by George W. Bush in a folder on my desktop. I found this glorious work of art thanks to KQED's art review of a seemingly very intriguing exhibition at the Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco entitled Polite Guests from the Future (http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/08/05/polite-guests-from-the-future-an-alternate-version-of-russian-history/). 

Now, a bit about me is in order, I suppose. I graduated from Florida State University in December 2013 with a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art and Art History and a minor in Museum Studies. If FSU had offered a major in Museum Studies, I would've totally pursued that instead, but I wasn't so fortunate! I'll be moving to the Netherlands at the end of this month to pursue my Master's degree at Maastricht University with a program entitled Arts & Heritage: Policy, Management, and Education (what a mouthful... it took me a few months to memorize my program title).

Was that a sufficient introduction?

Good.