My Travels Down the Creep Highway: Learning Zerg (1)

I have been playing Starcraft II off and on since beta and it's one of those games I really want to be good at. 
 
More importantly, it's a game I feel i CAN be good at through practice. At the top of my game I was in Platinum and fairly confident in my skills, not Korea-good, but respectable. However, for the last few months I've been up at school where a busy schedule and shitty internet has limited my time with SCII to....well, none since the summer. My skills have deteriorated, my league fallen into silver and my skills fallen into memory. I still watch my favorite casters, but haven't had the time to invest to get back into the game. But I'm off for winter break for the next few weeks and want to get back into the game I have been watching from afar for the last few months. 
 
During beta I mained Protoss and I gradually became pretty proficient with Terran post-launch. However, for this re-learning of Starcraft I'm going to try something different.
 
That's right. I'm going Zerg, bitches.
 
Zerg has always been my favorite race to watch in pro matches, both aesthetically and strategically. The way that race works is super interesting to me, despite the fact that I've never really played it much at all (mostly due to the fact that anytime I tried I felt overwhelmed and just went back to my comfortable Terran or Protoss).
 
So for the next few weeks I'm going to be playing a lot of SCII, exclusively as Zerg. I'll chronicle each match, what went wrong, what went right, and what I've learned from it on each new entry. 
 
If anyone has any tips, comments, advice, or wants to join me on this creep-laced journey, post 'em below.
 
Also, if anyone wants to go for a sparring match to test your mettle against my furious Zerg, I'd be more than up for it.
 
DrStoked#659