So, I'm retiring this blog.
As you can probably tell from the long silences between increasingly uninspired posts (the Indonesia one being one of the laziest things I have ever written), my enthusiasm for this blog has been dying some time.
There are a number of reasons. For a start, I'm too busy. One of the things that keeps me busy is writing exhibition reviews and articles about art in Tokyo every other week or so, and even though this writing doesn't have any personal content in it, it still satisfies my need to write and brings me a sense of reward that I don't really get out of this blog anymore. Also, since I started to use Flickr, I've enjoyed blogging about my life in photos as opposed to words.
I started this blog because I thought it would be a better way of keeping in touch with far away friends than sending out mass emails. I had also just graduated and was moving to Japan, and there was a lot of excitement and novelty that I wanted to convey, not to mention the tons free time I had in which to do it. Now my life in Tokyo is entirely the norm and I even though I see ridiculous things all the time, I don't in any way feel compelled to write about them.
There was also more of a community around this blog at the time I started, and I enjoyed keeping up with my friends at "Fraancofinn" and "Last one to Bed", but they have also, for their various reasons, stopped updating, and so it kind of feels like I'm blogging into a vacuum. I will probably leave the blog online, but I doubt I will write again. If I ever have a reason to start a new blog, then I'll let you know.
I know some of you read this blog, but from now on I'm going to stick to Flickr and individual emails for conveying what my life in Tokyo is like. Best of all, it would be great if you guys could come out here and let me show you around.
So Mr Moshi Moshi says arigato and sayonara.
3 comments:
so there goes my obsessively checking every day just to see if there were more anecdotes on Japanese life. I'll have to start doing my PhD or something now :S
Hmmm, well, if you like my pictures I update my Flickr account fairly regularly. Unfortunately I just don't have any more desire to give anecdotes on Japanese life. Although, I think when you eventually come here - and I know you plan to - you'll definitely love it and get off on all the everyday insanity, which in turn will make me enjoy everything as though it's fresh again. PhD do not want... come to J~a~p~a~n....
It's alright - I check the flikr obsessively too! And yes, I do indeed plan to come to Japan. I will make it to Japan. How and when I don't know but I will somehow. Yes. Poverty is cool anyway...
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