I'm actually going to write one of those "Sorry I Having Been Blogging" posts. The truth is, I haven't had a whole lot to say recently. When you're in China, there are lots of new experiences and lots of new reactions to the differences in the world around you. When you don't have a job, you have lots of time for thinking and writing and taking photos with your friend's digital camera and blogging and being on the internet in general.
Well, not being in China and having a job, I'm finding myself with fewer unusual experiences and far less time to spend online than I used to. I figure most people are not interested in my cold or how late the bus was again. :-)
Additionally, many of my earlier thoughts sprang from conflicts and controversies within my home group of churches. While I do keep up with some of what has been happening via other people's blogs (Joy has a link to a new forum/blog called Sharper Iron that LOTS of people seem to be jumping onto; Bob has had some good thoughts as well), I'm distant enough--both physically and, surprisingly, emotionally--from the controversies to have little to say anymore.
So what has been going on? Well, I seem to be in the midst of my annual losing-of-the-voice, just in time for all the choir practices leading up to Good Friday and Easter. Work's been fairly busy. And the evening bus is typically late, though I'm on an earlier schedule now and get to eat my supper before 7:00 instead of 8:00, which makes me happy. I'm also making early plans for my assault on getting back into grad school (in other words, I've begun looking into various schools' music theory programs).
That's about it for my life. The cherry trees are blooming, and my street looks like a pink snowstorm passed through. It's sunny. When the air is still, it's warm. But the winds are still quite cold.
Finding a lost voice is difficult with all the petals calling as they drift down the sunny street. Perhaps if I find my voice, I'll find I have something to say again.
Posted by jonhanneman at March 13, 2005 5:03 PM