An Eighty-Day Afterthought

Alright, it finally occurred to me after all this time in Taiwan that perhaps I should catalogue my adventures and observations in blog form. Throughout the summer I've been trying to keep up with the requests for information in emails, letters, and IMs. I've been trying to keep everyone individually posted on the happenings here when what I should have been doing was posting to a blog and save myself some work.

What's more, I should have had this realization much, much earlier, as before I even left Adam ('nother Rutgers student here in Taiwan) informed me that he'd be forming one (linked below).
>>http://www.livejournal.com/users/formosathefun/

I got a further hint from my friend Chris P. posting about his trip Kenya. I thought, "Ah competition," but it never clicked...
>>http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~christpe/

Then I got still more help when today my friend here from my Calligraphy and Chinese Painting classes, Jean-Michel, gave me the link to his blog.
>>http://jeanmichel.typepad.com/taipei/

I even remember suggesting my highschool EnviSci teacher make a homework blog way back in 2000. OK. Now I get it. Sorry to all those I left out the first time around. So, a bit belated, but here goes. Post comments!, all the hitherto ungrateful. I'll alter the posting dates to better reflect the order of things (i.e. - even though this is my first post, events before 8/13 are below). Enjoy.