Enter Kathryn

Hello All. Well, no one yet, since no one is following us. But I digress...

Siodhbhra and I decided to write a blog to keep us amused and appease our friends and family so that they know we are still alive while we party it up in London. Oh yeah. We might want to study too. There will be some of that. And it should be noted that "partying it up" for lame geeks like us involve things like going to see Shakespeare plays and spending all Sunday listening to crazy people talk about random things at speaker's corner. Maybe I'm not selling this whole blog thing too well. But it should be fun. And Siodhbhra is a much better/ funnier writer than I so you should enjoy her posts.

We are not in London yet. But we will be sometime in the middle of September. We thought we would keep you updated about the process of moving to a foreign country and all of the great "fun" that entails. Also, there was a British election yesterday which went rather interestingly so I'll be talking about that later. When we do finally get to the UK, I will be getting my Master's in International Relations at the London School of Economics. And Siodhbhra will be studying... something involving China (see her post for further details).

One confession up front. I really like British politics. Not quite sure why. Except that it's awesome. I like it enough to spend a year and a half of my life studying and writing a senior honors thesis on it. If you don't want to waste a lot of time with me, don't bring it up because I can go on forever. If you ever have a spare half hour however go to this site: http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/prime-ministers-questions
and watch a session of Prime Minister's Questions. And then come talk to me.

I also tend to watch/ listen to more British TV/ radio than I do in the US. Especially Doctor Who and various political satire shows.

So how did the daughter of two engineers become obsessed with a political system in a country several thousand miles away? Well, I don't know. It is kind of a mystery where this Anglophilia stemmed from. Until I studied abroad in London in the summer of 2008, I had never even been there. (It should be noted that this was well after my obsession had taken hold). But, the heart wants what it wants and I seem to want an antiquated yet usually quite functional system full of weird hangovers form anywhere from the middle ages to modern times.

The plan for right now (and we'll see how well this holds up) is that we will each post blogs separately as we see fit. Feel free to leave us questions/ comments etc. And we might address them. It might be kind of sparse over the next few months, but should ramp up after that. So stay tuned.

Sitting at home in Long Beach, CA with nothing to do,

Kathryn