** [[Never mind failed on learning Dutch: after 2 months in Argentina, I was at least conversational. Here, I stumble when the clerk at the grocery store asks me if I want my receipt. ]]
I sort of feel guilty about this, and mostly don't. I keep thinking of the xkcd(www.xkcd.com) cartoon:
(Note Frame 3).
So I suck at keeping a blog; big deal. Shoot me. I'm busy. I write in my journal daily; I put together the biweekly newsletter for our programme; and meanwhile trying to maintain some semblance of a social life (which I largely abandoned during my undergraduate studies), romantic life (no details here, sorry), and still be the over-achieving workaholic grad student I'd always dreamed of being.
But at the end of the day there are still interesting papers that I want to tell *someone* about; weird newsclips, funny cartoons, intriguing (and/or useless) factoids, and random ideas that need to go somewhere. Facebook doesn't cut it; sorry. Ergh, not.
As such becomes the blog: repository of things unfileable, unfiled, or simply too numerous for other venues. I'm not about to start jotting websites in my journal, complete with underlines and blue text for future reference; nor clutter my minimalistic FB wall with every pedantic morsel of eruditic factual deliciousness I come across; nor inundate my classmates with all the fascinating papers I stumble across in a day's procrastination. (For starters, it will also save me from punching the FB time clock every time I add something... in contrast, here I can conveniently select "Save as...", stuff everything into my Blog folder and patchwork it all together at my delectable future leisure.)
There. Get used to it, both of you. I hope it'll be fun. At the very least, it will be for me, and for now, that's enough.
Xiao!
SV
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