Preparations: A Stop at Wesleyan Before Departure

You've probably noticed by now the title of this blog, "Mr. Spahn in the Old World." It's a particularly fitting title as I spend time at Wesleyan, a very old and familiar world to me before heading off to London. I came back to Wes to help Dan Drew, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Middletown get his campaign organization on campus up and running before I head to the UK. The plan was for me to serves as a burst of energy for the campaign, setting up an organization and building some momentum before others took over.

Initially things looked pretty positive, I got quite a bit done in a short amount of time and got about 100 frosh registered to vote. Unfortunately, things took a pathetic turn as I was stricken with Strep Throat and spent most of the next week in bed, and the remainder being lazy, if marginally functioning. Even now I'm not 100%, but I've started to work again, making preparations for handing things off to Corinne Duffy, who'll be handling Dan Drew and WesDems stuff once I'm gone.

Being at Wesleyan with so many people gone has been strange. Aside from not having a place of my own to stay, an unexpectedly troubling condition, campus is much less familiar without my junior folk here. Even the CSS lounge, that certain storied harbor, isn't quite the same

That's things up to now. Soon I'll be leaving Wesleyan, dropping my car off in Pennsylvania and spending a week and a half traveling around Scotland and London with my Aunt Trish.

I'm still trying to find my voice in this blog, as writing about myself is very unfamiliar to me. Any comments would be most welcome. I hope that in addition to chronicling life in London I'll have some interesting historical and cultural commentary.

More updates to come, I promise.