The Beginning.

This blog has been an idea I've had in my head for a few months now, and I'm stoked I finally got around to creating it. I don't know who's going to end up reading this, or if I'll even keep up with the posts, but a start is a start....

Let me start with some intentions. Goals are good to have for things you want to do...right?

-Describe my experiences at different restaurants in and around St. Louis, Missouri.
        I've only recently become a city resident, and I'm a huge fan of local, independently run restaurants and eateries. I'd like to share some of my feelings and encounters at these businesses, and hopefully open up chances for my friends and people I know to explore a city they feel unfamiliar with, as well.

-Eat at as many different Restaurants as I can afford
        This blog will be nothing without new content on my end. At first I intend to make up for lost time and review some of the places i have been to. After that, I aim for at least one new restaurant visit per week, more or less depending on when the rent is due.

-Be Honest
       This shouldn't be a huge problem, but I'd like to force honesty from myself. I sometimes find I'll try to defend the local or independent badge on a place because its something I believe in, but sometimes, things from those places flat out suck.

-Illustrate the blog with different media elements
       If I intend to become the photographer  hope to someday be, I'd like to have visual references to the food I'm eating. This means taking a camera with me to some of the places and photographing the food. A picture can frequently say more about something that I can ever hope to put into words.


While these intentions are a little vague, I hope they're going to guide me in keeping this on track. I've had a blog or two before that ended up being personal diaries (xanga, livejournal...we all had them), but I'd like to keep this one on track, explicitly. I also plan to cook up some dishes of my own and report to the (small) audience the outcome of those experiments.


And feel relived. That was a terribly wordy first post, but I intend to be less long winded in the actual posts. I'm really not a long winded person in real life, but somehow I manage to be with written (or typed) words. I'm going to go ahead and blame all the english teachers I've ever had for telling me to be descriptive.

Also, a little about me. So far in life, I'm a perpetual college student, working a day job, music snob, food lover. I'm a kid at heart, I don't come across as a particularly serious person, but I aim to enjoy life in as many ways as possible. I'm by no means a professional blogger/anything, but for some reason, writing essays about something silly like restaurants I've eaten at sounded appealing.



And so it begins.