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Why do people decide to blog? Some want to connect with people halfway around the world who share their interests - see the countless blogs devoted to knitting, cooking, sports, etc. Many, feeling that their posts will be funnier, better-crafted, more interesting than the rest, hope to get a little attention for themselves. Some of these attention-seekers may hope in their heart of hearts that some editor at a top publication will stumble across their blog and offer them the job of their dreams. (If only life were so simple.) But it seems to me that another common impetus for a blog, perhaps the most common one, is travel. Which brings me to how I decided that the time was ripe for my own blog.

A few weeks ago, I graduated from McGill University, with a Bachelors in Music. Armed with the knowledge of such esoteric musical topics as performance practice in the early 18th century, the daily Office in the medieval Roman Catholic church, and the emerging field of eco-musicology, I decided that I was ready to march out into the real world and...oh wait. No. That would require some real life skills. Scratch that. I decided that the best thing would be to stay in school as long as possible, in the hope that one day, if this heap of esoteric knowledge really piled up, someone would reward me with a job.

Still, I decided that even if I wasn't ready to fly out into the real world of jobs, real estate, etc., I did want to shake my life up a little bit. So in six weeks (exactly! to the day! not that I'm counting) I will be moving to Manhattan to continue my musicological studies at the City University of New York. So, in the fall, you can expect to read all about the wonderful adventures I experience as I adjust to life in the Big Apple.

But wait! There's more!! Before I head off to New York, I will be spending three weeks gallavanting about France with my darling mother. So stay tuned for exciting tales from that *other* land of Francophones beginning July 22.