36 - More than one place...

"I read so I can live life in more than one place."

~Ann Tyler

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85 - Blog-stalking

So when I first came to Korea, I "stalked" a number of Korea-centric blogs. It was mostly to check out the scene and get an idea of what I would be coming into, but I ended up being hugely motivated by a few very special bloggers. I was a silent presence, contributing to their hits but not outright announcing myself. In an interesting and freakishly rare turn of events, last February, I actually ended up on a tour bus with one of the bloggers whom I knew by sight, but I'm supposing had no idea who I was. We ended up hitting it off (I never let her know that I read her blog...) and now we're friends on facebook. Now I'm wondering if I ought to go find these women and let them know how much their blogs inspired me...

I'm thinking that I just might do that.

Here's to those silent, motivating forces.

92 - Ulterior Motives

"I have ulterior motives when I write," I confessed to Mordantt one night.

"Everyone does." she said, immediately.

"Really?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah." she answered. "I am a historian and I can safely say that through the ages, people are never writing what they're writing for the reasons they say they're writing it."

"Interesting..." I said.

"The fun part," she said. "Is figuring out why they're actually writing."

Resolved...

*To be better about distilling my thoughts into posts.

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for a smashing 2009!