*the short* I'm a Canadian Morehead-Cain scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill. My email is [email protected]. When people ask me what my major is, I answer that I'm "going with the flow". I'm now Americanised enough for non-Americans to think I'm American, but not enough to convince anyone else. *the medium* Most of my free time is spent reading (fiction) or writing (this blog). My academic courses include a guest-lecture series on Israel/Palestine, a guest-lecture heavy class on diplomacy and Beowulf, a premed health writing class, and an internship recording the oral history of Southern union labour organisers. I've also taken courses in basic quantificational logic, Greco-Roman athletics, and weightlifting. Recently, I've spent more time stalking other people's blogs (see [[blogroll]]) and brushing with quantitative reasoning after ASPR. I now maintain this blog because I like what writing does to me, and also so that the external viewer (you!) can see what I like thinking about in case you ever want to reach out (which you should totally do, please.) *the long* I started writing this blog during [[travel logs|my year abroad]] (which is a pretentious phrase that disguises how I lived out of a 30L backpack). I logged my travels with — similar to all other written things I produce — too many em dashes, commas, and bracket asides. I spent my gap year [[travel logs|travelling Europe and Asia]], [[books pt.1|reading a book a week]], nearly dying at the summit of [[kilimanjaro]], spending time with family, and meeting some extremely inspirational people that I continue to look up to (and shamelessly copy). Growing up, I cycled through three different suburbs in Ontario before moving to Toronto to attend the boys-only private school I eventually graduated from. Somewhere in between, I debated for the national team (some indirect thoughts [[amsterdam & berlin|here]] and [[slow; fast|here]]), assisted on research into Ghanian graveyards, and did some student government stuff. I also learned how to tie a tie three different ways, did an educational biking trip through Belgian/French WWI battlefields, and befriended some incredibly uplifting, supportive, and energetic people. More miscellany: I'm right-handed in every task except brushing my teeth. I'm currently in an ongoing struggle to learn how to read poetry (and how to let poetry affect me). The trait I admire the most is adaptability; the trait that irritates me the most is deliberate close-mindedness. My favourite author is Christopher Buckley; favourite film is *The Hustler*; favourite artist is a tie between Laufey & NIKI; favourite book is *Lucky Jim*, by Kingsley Amis; and my favourite reader is you, no question.