I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled gore and mystery for a little bit of reflection on why I'm writing about all this gore and mystery.  However, to make up for this, take the title as a blatantly obvious hint of what is to come soon.

I didn't ever really do an introduction post, I just hopped right in to dead bodies in water. I tackled why I'm doing this in my about page, but I wanted to talk about why I'm writing about this spooky stuff before I get into some info on who is reading this spooky stuff. And, like most people who have studied abroad... I'm going to bring up the fact that I studied abroad. There's no avoiding it. It's part of the story.