Do you ever stop to reflect on the magnitude of your responsibility to yourself?

As you may have heard, I will indeed be leaving for Japan to teach English for the JET Program. I will be there for at least a year, but my contract is renewable for up to five years. Just to keep in contact with the world I know here in the States, I will start a new blog chronicling whatever misadventures I get into in the land of the rising sun.

In lieu of that url (yet), here's something funny:

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger
1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading.

2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.

3. Write on a regular basis in a text editor instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.

4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. Instead of whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

Remind me again, why am I going to this strange country?