Absence

In Ireland and Scotland I was without a computer or time to journal. I've been diligent since, but some of the writing would affect some potential readers. I mean, they were there. And it's not mean, not all of it anyway, but it is honest or exaggeration that may be taken as honesty. Everyone's going to take it the wrong way so I've kept it in my journal and on my hard drive for later publications.

Some of it is just too boring to detail. I spent about three hours and eight pages journaling the trip to Scotland. I think I got up to our arrival and first meal in the cafe across the street from the train station. Nothing happened in that time but there were little observations that felt important. So I guess there was no conflict or characterization. And over the next day nothing happened but I'll detail it on paper and sift through it before I type anything up.

I'm sure no one's been irritated while expecting my next post, but I feel like apologizing anyway (that's what that was up there).

Also, these walls are very thin and the people in the hall keep referring to me as the American. They're not saying much of anything other than that I'm here. It hardly seems worth talking about.

Maybe I'll have a few adventures to detail this week. I have all sorts of orientations so that'll be ripe for interesting material, right? Right.