October 7, 2005 – 8:41 pm

My hometown is not a large place. Australia …is. Someday the two shall meet. I’m going there if it’s the next last thing I do.

And I’ll write about getting there, here.

That’s the idea anyways. I’ve got months to go before I leave and tons of things to do (or is it tonnes?) I still need airfare, a passport, and my visa. I have no idea where I’ll be working, I don’t know what life will be like there, the only thing I’m fairly sure of is this place is supposed to be in the southern hemisphere somewhere—and it’s pretty far away.

I mean, at first I didn’t even know what to call this write-em-up I got going here. I started with AusBlog. That was aweful. Then it was Home of the AusBlog, which was also aweful but had the additional pleasure of being a longer phrase that people had to read through instead of simply something aweful. Get my point? I tried Wanna be an Aussie, but I don’t wanna be an Aussie. I’m an American and I’ve come to accept that fact. I wanna be in Aussie-land. I then discovered that ‘Aussie’ with the esses was somewhat of a faux-pas, as it must sound too much like ‘wussy’. Wussy, for those not familiar with its etymology, is the conjoining of wimp and pussy. Not something you want associated with your national character. Oz and Ozzie are far-n-away preferred. So I arrived at OzThing, a title far closer to the mark. But the essential message that this was… a thing… that was related to… Oz-tralia… it lacked a little something in character. It had a weak identity. This isn’t just a thing, it’s my thing. I needed to tie it to who I already was. And so I decided to bestow upon this lucky subdomain my already hallowed online identity—Glot. Glot is me, my experiences and thoughts, and the media that represents them. It’s something I’ve become proud of despite trying not to be.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the OzGlot.

Happy to have ya… now keep reading.