Metapost: A note about Vol. 2.5 and beyond

So I'm really happy with how the first two volumes of this blog has turned out. Both of my early journals were copied here pretty much verbatim (give or take a grammatical error or two), and it was all chronologically ordered from early senior year of high school up through T-minus 18 days until I first started college.

But of course nothing can stay that simple. Since the 2nd book got completed, I of course started packing all my shit up for college. And since I couldn't leave a treasure trove of embarrassment just lying around my dorm room, I had to start writing my thoughts on random pieces of paper and keep them in various places where roommates/dorm mates/potential girlfriends (ha!) wouldn't find them.

Further complicating things, I started to write more politically and social themed entries around this time. The political naivete that I exude in these entries is cringe-inducing, and in my opinion even more embarrassing than my entries about crushes on girls or bitching about being a loser.

I considered just dropping the political ones, but it was a big part of who I was at the time, and it informed a lot of my day-to-day decisions as well. So I'm keeping it all in, warts and all. If you read them, you'll probably be able to tell that my heart was in the right place, but an inexperienced life coupled with a desire to shout radical rhetoric right at the time of entering into a large liberal arts university makes for pretty much the perfect storm of high-horsed bullshit. Please read them with a grain of salt. Or just skip them. Yeah, better off just skipping them.

Anyway, this is all a rambling way (do I know any other?) of closing out Volume 2, and explaining that instead of jumping right into Volume 3, there will be some leftover entries that either fell out of my old journals (heretofore tagged "volume 1.5" or "volume 2.5", depending on which book they fell out of), and the less timely political/social pieces (to be tagged "naive politics").

The Volume 3 entries will of course start when I first enter college. And you'll be able to hear a nice healthy mix of awkward boy living with girls his own age for the first time, crushing on girls new and old, trying to fit in with the athletes in the dorm, beginning my first job on campus, a whole new cast of characters, and more.

So basically, keep an eye on the tags to see where exactly the entries are coming from. That should sort everything out nicely.

Thanks and hope you're enjoying the blog.

-EHSD