On this day in history, two years and (according to my blogger profile) 103,987 words ago, The Daily(?) Beallsvonian (later Deeper Shade of Seoul, later still Watching Myself Gavotte) was born. I have come incredibly far in two years, a quick browse at those early posts reminds me. I've moved across the country, twice, gotten semi-gainful employment, gotten into law school, and perhaps most importantly gotten out of that damn coal mine. I've even managed to go months and months without a gratuitous reference to Mauritania, such as how it's being destroyed by locusts, or how Francois Mitterand's son has been dodging taxes there.

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