What do you all want to hear? - A Semester Down Under

September 04, 2005

What do you all want to hear?

Dear Friends and Family,

I have not posted to the blog for what feels like an extraordinarily long time. I suppose several weeks of silence is a long time indeed. I do have a few events that I will post sometime in the hopefully near future, accompanied by some new photographs on the kodak gallery.

In the meantime, for those of you still reading and keeping up with the blog, I put the question to you: What do you want to hear? What should I tell you about? Should I maintain the sense of enchantment that runs through the careful entries of the first month? Should I allow more of the day-to-day rise up?

Honestly, I've been quite busy and happy to ignore the absence of computers in my life... such wonderful inventions, but ever so time-consuming. Except on a rainy Sunday afternoon (today), there is not much desire in my heart, soul, or mind to log into one and write an entry on the blog.

Nonetheless, I feel as though I'm leaving you all high and dry, and I by no means want my life here to take over the life I will return to come December and January. Let me know what you want to hear!!

Jan

P.S. I also just like getting comments from you people. :)

Posted by Janice K on September 4, 2005 02:04 PM
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Hey Jan, my excuse for not writing is the semester start up at work. What a hassle getting everyone set up and answering tons of questions and emails and so on. Every day it's work work work and then go home and crash out.

hmmm, what do we want to hear? I guess we'll all have different viewpoints on that. I enjoyed your encounters with the local folks and your descriptions of the various people you met. but, you're probably not meeting many new people now, so that might be a hard order to fill. I suppose I'd be happy to hear anything, anything at all.

Last week, or the week before, an aussie exchange student came in the office and I immediately dubbed him the Jan Trade, figuring you're taking his place, he's taking yours. He looked surferish, yellow moppish hair, tan skin, thin leather bracelets and necklace, big outback smile. He had trouble with registration, and in one email from our exchange, he referred to the financial aid people as being unable to "organize a piss up in a brewery " what ever that means. Obviously a back home expression, no doubt you've heard it before yourself. He was a completely average looking, or normal, until he started talking, which I guess is how you must feel at times.

Last night was the first football game of the season and I think there are a lot of students still asleep in their cars, or the bushes, or their friend's couches. Tomorrow is Labor Day.

Anything you write we will read, Jan.

Posted by: sam on September 5, 2005 03:01 AM

Your grandma really looks forward to your messages (so do I ) but she is computer illiterate so I have to print out your messages for her to read. How do I get your Kodak photos? The kind of info I would like to see would give me a little more insight to your studies. social life, and new experiences. Love ya, Paka Don

Posted by: Paka Don on September 9, 2005 12:52 PM

j-dawg...i'm hurt :(. where's my picture...clearly i'm not cool enough. sigh. i'll work on it ;)

Posted by: Lesley on September 12, 2005 03:28 AM

Have I told you I MISS YOU YET?!?!?
juuust checking.
They are making a movie that has catch my disease as the main song on it or whatever... so it plays everytime they show the preview and I think of you. Love you woman!!! WRite me even a baby email so I know you are still alive and kicking cuz I cant figure this damn blog thing out. I dont even know if you are gonna get this. UGH- Damn modern technology.
LOVE YOU LOVE YOU

Posted by: A-DUUHHHH on September 14, 2005 02:28 PM

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