Welcome

Why hello there. I'm glad you're reading Boyer's Vineyard. It could change your life. As my roommate and co-author Beka would say, there's a non-zero probability that reading this will change your life. So, theoretically possible. Statistically impossible. Something like that.

My name is Harriett and as you can see from the above intro, I like to pretend that I am smart and that I know things. I'm a class-A charlatan, so get used to it. But this blog isn't about me. It's about Boyer's Vineyard.

I'm not sure where the title Boyer's Vineyard came from. All I know is that's what it says on a sign on the door to our apartment. I assume the Boyer part comes from Dean John W. Boyer, the dean of the College at the University of Chicago, where we are all students. Our apartment is Hannah, Emily, Beka, Elysia, and me (Harriett, because you already forgot.) All of us are 4th-years (seniors) except Emily, because she's in a dual-degree program for social work (I hope I got that right.)

We started this blog because, well, I don't know. It might be a good way to remember senior year of college. Also, I think we all like to write. I (sort of) had a blog going last year while I was studying abroad, and Elysia and Hannah both study English so...one would hope. None of us seems to have the "time" (will, desire, drive, what have you) to keep up individual blogs, so we're doing one together in the hope that it will be easier.

I don't have any good ideas for what to write about in this post, so I'll tell you what's going on right now in this very moment right here at Boyer's Vineyard.

Three of us are in the kitchen/living room. All of us are on our (basically) identical macbooks. Is this sounding like college yet? I don't know what Hannah's doing. Beka was just on Turkish Wikipedia. Emily is on vacation. Elysia gets back from her summer internship in New York tomorrow. Since I studied abroad, I haven't seen her in over a year so I'm pretty pumped for her return. Hannah and I spent the afternoon at Cafe 53, where we were supposed to be working on applications for the Fulbright scholarship, but I don't think either of us made much progress. Classes don't start for another 3 weeks so it's still summer. 

So, welcome to the incredibly exciting life at Boyer's Vineyard. Stay tuned to see if anyone else posts. Hopefully they do or I'll seem like a fool.