Alark and avast, 'tis the dawning of another very green blog, fashioned from the uniquely mundane, free substance that is xanga.com.

The name is Rachel Bjorn (bee-YORN), which latter part is surprisingly confusing to the greater part of Georgia and likely to the other 49 great states, who by my presence I have not yet had the joy of slapping around my last name with.

I am married, and spend the greater portion of my mental capacities designated for communicating purposes on my puppy, Abby, whose primary aims in life are to every morning lick off another layer of facial skin as I fight the right to dictate what hour I wake, to without fail pee approximately three times the liquid she intakes all over my house in as many different intervals a day as she can manage, and to quizzically challenge every physical step I take with generally the most adorable expressions, as dogs go, in dogdom.

Otherwise, I live quite the quintessentially normal life, with sometimes random bursts of deep thought, aching like a mother cow's udder to find release to the hungry calf that is veritably you, kind reader.

A shout-out, once again, to xanga.com--hospitable host, willing avenue of said most important release, free web space wherewith to tinker.