And after 40 days and 40 nights of no internet, Matt sent out a dove. The dove returned clasping an adorable kitten picture in its talon, and Matt knew that The Internet had returned.

Despite my best intentions to keep this blog updated before I had internet installed at my apartment, things obviously did not go as well as planned. But since about 25% of all blog posts on the internet are an apology for not updating blogs, let me move past that and talk about some things I’m going to do in the future.

Blogs aren’t my thing, really. That is to say, I don’t find long blocks of text enjoyable for myself as a way to consume information, and I would assume that it’s not ideal for most other people as well. Instead I would like to move onto my larger plan of “vlogging”, a word that nobody can pronounce without sounding like a complete tool, my experiences and information about Japan.

One of my flaws is that I can’t move forward into a project until I’m 100% convinced that it’s a good idea (which doesn’t exactly explain why some of my older video projects exist…) so I’ve been going back and forth on the right way to do things. Suffice it to say, I think this period of neglecting my blog and just thinking has provided some clarity on the situation. As you can probably tell, I’m not looking for a typical talking-to-the-front-of-a-macbook style of vlogging, so hopefully it will be interesting and more immersive for people with a passing interest in 1) Japan, 2) the Japanese language, 3) travel, or 4) me. I know where my family stands. But at the same time I want to minimize the dailiness of my own life in these vlogs and instead make them self-standing projects in their own rights.

So now that I’ve spent 250 words doing my pet peeve — talking about projects that are going to be made eventually — I’ll shut up until I have something to say.