Chopstick Lobster

Now been six months since I opened this blog, and another six months before that since I came to Taiwan. And a whole lot more has happened than I’ve taken the time to write about. Shame really, with all the thinking I put into composing (unwritten) posts in my head (77 xkcd). But then again, I did that as soon as I even considered starting one. Curses!

Just to tell you, no apologies (besides this one). Ultimately I do want to remember a lot of this stuff, and I’m astoundingly bad at doing that on my own. I also want to work on my writing, give people a clue what I’m doing and create an outlet for myself.

So I give you the Six Month Scuttle. Lobsters are particularly good at going in reverse, so posts herein are old news. They’ll sit up front for a while as new posts, then get scuttled to their appropriate date.

Bottoms up!

So it’s August 2, 2007. Six months to the day since arriving in Taipei. This blog’s been a long time coming, with many reasons for delay: job-search guilt, no computer, no domain, no digicam, no money for any one, what do I say?, in what way?. OK, computer, but now the internets are really, really distracting. Then procrastinator’s guilt, all-too-powerful frontal lobes, laziness, … it’s too hot….

And now.

What will this be about? Partly some overdue updates on my happenings this past half year (Good news everyone! I’m not dead!). A large dose, to start, on Taiwan and teaching. General diary/journal. Photolog. My thoughts on things. Probably political rants that I’ll try to make as un-rantlike as possible and instead insightful musings that everyone likes to read.

What do you think of when you hear chopsticklobster? For me, it’s a fun, colorful, mishmash of ideas. With ten legs. Sometimes moving backwards, molting and growing, feeling out a way, composing itself of bits and pieces of those before it, drawing out analogies way too long, pinching and poking if you don’t like it. (In truth, it’s just that lobsterswithfrickinlaserbeamsattachedtotheirheads.com was already taken.)