<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844890917898773129</id><updated>2011-04-21T13:43:44.949-04:00</updated><category term='New Beginnings'/><category term='Scotland'/><title type='text'>V as in Victor</title><subtitle type='html'>My soul is among lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ashmacv.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3844890917898773129/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ashmacv.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ash</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03710044032253298248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3844890917898773129.post-9062204356705132095</id><published>2008-03-16T11:38:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T11:41:34.503-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Beginnings'/><title type='text'>Once more...with feeling?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;When I lived in Scotland last year I hadn't yet figured out what I would be doing to keep people updated on my adventures and mishaps and, as such, registered a new blog title just in case I ended up using that format. Unfortunately, upon arriving in the bitterly cold North, I quickly realized that a) I'd be lucky to get a chance to write monthly updates at best and b) the internet in Scotland isn't exactly up to the same standards as the internet in the US. For instance: there's no wireless. I don't mean to say that the entire country had no wireless. I'm sure that someone, somewhere had a router set up. What I mean is the bastards who owned my house and &lt;em&gt;turned off the heating during the night in the middle of the winter thus causing all 50something of us to nearly die of hypothermia &lt;/em&gt;refused to get it for us....so we were stuck with poor LAN service when we had internet at all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;At any rate...enough bitching. What I'm trying to say is that, due to circumstances, I fell off the blogging bandwagon and when I returned to the US, I set up a Livejournal (that I've used infrequently at best ever since). So...as the cult leaders like to say...it's time I came home. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;I still haven't decided what this blog is going to be used for. Maybe I'll do literary critiques (if any of you actually believed that I know the son of the deposed king of Nigeria and he needs a favor). Maybe I'll rant about politics. Maybe I'll just get drunk and talk about my feelings. Maybe all 3 and it'll just be a tiny orgy of pretension and sobs! Regardless, I need something to entertain me from time to time and this seemed the most viable candidate at the moment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;In the mean time...I'll leave you with this....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Man...is, above all, the plaything of his memory (Andre Breton)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jou.ufl.edu/people/faculty/mweigold/barcelona-palace450.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jou.ufl.edu/people/faculty/mweigold/barcelona-palace450.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3844890917898773129-9062204356705132095?l=ashmacv.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ashmacv.blogspot.com/feeds/9062204356705132095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3844890917898773129&amp;postID=9062204356705132095&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3844890917898773129/posts/default/9062204356705132095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3844890917898773129/posts/default/9062204356705132095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ashmacv.blogspot.com/2008/03/once-morewith-feeling.html' title='Once more...with feeling?'/><author><name>Ash</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03710044032253298248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
