Jun 08 2009
limping along…
Oh my poor dead blog. My respect to people who blog regularly, I’m just not making the time for it.
On a general list of things to do with this blog for a long time has been clean up my trans siberian posts and organise it so its more useful to other travelers.
I’ve enjoyed doing the other posts too, but I spend a lot of time looking up facts and graphs and making pictures so it kinda takes a long time to put it together. I should probably be less precious about it.
Still, investigating things like the cherry-blossom-as-climate-change-indicator last year was really illuminating, and stumbling across a researcher who’s spent his whole life compiling studies that show the warming temperature in Japan since way back in the Heian era was amazing, though took a long web crawl to find it.
Another thing on my to-do list is to link up what I’m doing in school with my blog posts. I’ve loved searching and putting together the previous posts, and contextualising some of my everyday observations with more detailed facts and figures, but it seems like it would make more sense if I started joining up my issue based illustration with some words and put it up on this blog.
Right now I’m looking at what seasonality means in modern Japan, how its changed / warped / disappeared. Maybe you’ve seen those quintessentially Japanese strawberry christmas cakes…
