It's all happening

I'm off to Kampala in a few hours and it hasn't yet quite hit me that in four plane rides and at least as many time zones, I'll have started my summer of preliminary field work in Africa. I heard there's no reliable door-to-door mail in Uganda so save your care packages and get to your computers, because email and - apparently - this blog will have to do for now. I traveled to Latin America a few years ago and sent regular Claire Logs by email; in an effort to be more efficient and perhaps less intrusive with my updates, I have now officially become a blogger. I hope to turn this little virtual space into an effective field note journal as well as a networking tool for staying in touch and connected.

In the meantime, I ask you this: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? wtf?