Sunday, April 08, 2007
Well hello there!
Did you miss me? It's been a year or so since I last wrote anything here, but I have reasons. I'll explain, but it's not that interesting...
I was going to write something towards the end of April last year but my 30th birthday came up and, well, I got preoccupied with getting old(er), amongst other things. For those who were at my birthday, please don't comment! FYI I still consider the individuals in question to be socially unacceptable. Anyway in the wake of a birthday that would better be fogotten, I partied hard with some good hard party folk - a cap doffed at this point to Lloyd and Matt especially. Next thing I knew it was Summer, which was all about being outside and on the beach, not blogging.
By the time Summer was done, I'd been 6 months without an entry in the blog, and decided between that milestone and general socialising that I should try and go a whole year before another entry. Seemed like a good date to set.
Just because...
But here I am again. And what can I say about the past year? Has much happened? Yes and no would be the easiest answer. Basically I have plunged even further into life here (sadly without being 100% fluent in Korean. Yet!), to the point where my day-to-day life has been more about small town gossip than about anything else. I am far too settled here for my own good.
Thankfully I have a target to aim for. Lloyd had to get back to Britain last month to jump through a few hoops so he can do a teacher training course, so we've decided that next March is Silk Road time. So the next year is about laying low and putting a bit of cash away. After that, Asia, horses, Kalashnikovs, bandits, wolves, Istanbul and all sorts of shenanigans. I'm not sure how useful the fishing rod is going to be in the Gobi Desert though, Lloyd. Haven't thrown it away though. You could use it there - the fish'll never see it coming...
Which leaves me to today. A salute must be made to Tom, Jean-Charles and Aaron for getting married. Whipped, the lot of you. Oh well, it happens to the best of us.
And, believe it or not, that's all I have to say about the last year. The specifics are a case of either you were there or you weren't (please don't say too much if you were!).
Damn, I need to do something interesting with my life.
Did you miss me? It's been a year or so since I last wrote anything here, but I have reasons. I'll explain, but it's not that interesting...
I was going to write something towards the end of April last year but my 30th birthday came up and, well, I got preoccupied with getting old(er), amongst other things. For those who were at my birthday, please don't comment! FYI I still consider the individuals in question to be socially unacceptable. Anyway in the wake of a birthday that would better be fogotten, I partied hard with some good hard party folk - a cap doffed at this point to Lloyd and Matt especially. Next thing I knew it was Summer, which was all about being outside and on the beach, not blogging.
By the time Summer was done, I'd been 6 months without an entry in the blog, and decided between that milestone and general socialising that I should try and go a whole year before another entry. Seemed like a good date to set.
Just because...
But here I am again. And what can I say about the past year? Has much happened? Yes and no would be the easiest answer. Basically I have plunged even further into life here (sadly without being 100% fluent in Korean. Yet!), to the point where my day-to-day life has been more about small town gossip than about anything else. I am far too settled here for my own good.
Thankfully I have a target to aim for. Lloyd had to get back to Britain last month to jump through a few hoops so he can do a teacher training course, so we've decided that next March is Silk Road time. So the next year is about laying low and putting a bit of cash away. After that, Asia, horses, Kalashnikovs, bandits, wolves, Istanbul and all sorts of shenanigans. I'm not sure how useful the fishing rod is going to be in the Gobi Desert though, Lloyd. Haven't thrown it away though. You could use it there - the fish'll never see it coming...
Which leaves me to today. A salute must be made to Tom, Jean-Charles and Aaron for getting married. Whipped, the lot of you. Oh well, it happens to the best of us.
And, believe it or not, that's all I have to say about the last year. The specifics are a case of either you were there or you weren't (please don't say too much if you were!).
Damn, I need to do something interesting with my life.
# posted by Stuart Reid @ 12:06 AM 
