Who am I?

Today, I was asked an interesting question: what country do I most identify myself with?

I was about to say "I'm English!" and then proceed to pull out some scones, tea and rain just to ram the point home, but then I realized that I don't really think that I'm English. See, I was born there and I lived there until I was almost 6. Since that time, I have been back a total of once (three years ago). Nonetheless, up to this point, my standard answer to the above question was "England ftw" essentially. But then I realized something (10 years too late): I really don't feel English at all.

I can just see all of you optimists going "Woohoo, 1 down, only 194 to go!"; however, elimination is clearly not the way to go about this. As much as I would love to go into how unlike I am to the people in 193 countries, you and I both have better things to do. So, to cut to the chase, I don't think I really am from anywhere. That said, I think there is one way I can identify myself: I am European. I can't say that I feel any particular affinity or connection to one country or another, but I do feel a strong connection to Europe.

So at this point, I had been standing in place, staring into space for about a minute or so, and in a complete daze. As I slowly returned to the world of the living, I spied the poor sod that had asked me the question. I'm sure he thought I had some sort of brain defect when I looked up, said "Europe" and walked away. Well, either that or he spent the rest of his days wondering when exactly Europe became a country and why no one had told him this. "I knew there was something fishy going on when they adopted the Euro..."

~Setsanto

New Layout!

I ask of you, is my new layout awesome or is it awesome? Well, right now it isn't 100% amazing (my page element borders are not working, among other things...), but it's getting there. I adapted a theme called "Agua" for my needs, which was surprisingly hard since the guy that made the theme was Spanish O.o. If nothing else, I learned the Spanish word for content wrapper!

I must say that I struggled more with editing the code than I would care to admit. It has been a while since I have done anything decent in terms of web design/coding, so apparently I've forgotten a decent amount.

I really like the simplicity of the new design, though I might change the background (maybe a light brown? Or perhaps a light blue?). #FFFFFF is a little bright to say the least...but hey, it could be worse (I'm looking at you, #99FF33). I also might, in a fit of creativity, actually make a decent header (the penguins would, of course, stay), though this is extremely doubtful since not only are my fits of creativity rare, but they also rarely amount to anything!

~Setsanto

EDIT: Comments are working!