que pasa

I realize that I'm not likely to blog as frequently anymore.  My new job doesn't seem to allow much time or left over energy to blog.  I could ramble but I would prefer to write properly.  Then I also realize that you folks who are still reading this blog (I think I'm back down to 4 readers lol) probably aren't expecting essays anyway.

Remember I mentioned I had a friend in prison before?  I just found out that the last 3 letters I wrote never reached my friend.  Apparently the letters were rejected.  Reasons were not given. Had my friend's dad not emailed me, I would not have known that all this while my friend had heard nothing from me.  Ok fine, so I did use some colored paper, so I did put some teddy bear stickers and so I did write about the sights I saw while traveling in July, and stuff that was happening in Beijing in August and Shanghai in September.  I'm thinking that these could all be reasons why the letters were rejected. So when my mom came over to visit this weekend just past, I scribbled a short note for her to mail when she got home.  It takes me time over a few weeks to write a letter, but I just wanted my friend to know that I really meant to keep in touch.

Which is what made me think about blogging actually.  I figure that I should make effort to post a little bit here and there.  Some news is better than no news isn't it? 

I have to admit I've been so out of keeping in touch (I'm barely keeping up with personal emails) that when I spent some time this evening catching up on my friends' blogs, it struck me that everybody's lives seems to be moving on, except mine.  I seem to be in this warp hole called "work". 

It is getting really cold here in Shanghai and my fingers feel like they're freezing as I type this.  I will write another day about how work has been, since it's pretty much been my whole life since I got here.  I hope you are well.