Tempest7: Blogger

Playing the Catch-Up Game

I just had to post. I've been chasing updates for over a month now. When you're busy one just doesn't have the energy to post updates. I tend to leave notes in a text file until I have time to really write it up. After I moved I haven't been able to get online consistantly which has also made updating difficult. I can't say that I will always be up-to-date but I will always try to catch up. My cousin made a post in his blog not too long ago about why he is blogging. I looked at the reason why I blog and what he says is completely true.

1) I blog so that I have a record of my past. This is my journal. My weblog.
2) I blog so that others can see what is going on in my life when it is not easy to tell them myself.

Stephanie and I were keeping in touch via email for a while. She would update me on her status in Japan and I would try to do the same about Hong Kong. The email started to run for pages and pages, I would only get a reply in once a month so there was a lot to fill in. It just isn't easy doing it for everyone I want to speak with, and I can't expect others to have enough time to write back so blogging is the obvious way to announce how my life is going.

There are those that don't have time to read, they want short summaries of my life. I don't know maybe I should start writing executive summaries at the top of each posting.

There's a number people who have stopped updating their blogs and so I have lost touch with their lives. It seems like a hassel but when I look back at my old entries I'm glad I made the record.

On a totally different note I finally got paid by United Oriental College. I can now walk away from that horrible school. My students told me they got paid as well, I think this only happened because 10 of them went to the police station to file charges.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:42