05 April 2006
Tied up
The volume of traffic isn't important. If people stumble upon these ramblings and want to read them, then hello and welcome, and I'll try not to do anything to embarrass myself. But I'm not about to start including advertising or counting the number of page views, or constantly referring to other blogs in the hope they'll link to me.
As earlier, and equally tedious postings have mentioned (look back a month or two to find something actually interesting, or right back to the beginning) I'm swamped with work, and in particular with the construction of a new Beijing and Shanghai guide. Now I only have small sections on food to finish, and I have to hack back a language sections someone else wrote, and that will be it.
But there's a backlog of features only delayed because I begged for mercy from their editors, and between now and May 13 when I next leave the country, I've a sizeable number to complete. I'll rarely leave the keyboard, and I'll end up carrying the background reading for the next trip with me, and only start it on the plane.
It's often like this. It never seems to stop, in fact. This isn't one of those whining 'Sorry I haven't blogged' posts found on the sites of teenagers with riveting life stories to do with surfing and dating, although no doubt it looks much the same. It's really yet another message on what a slog this glamorous life can be. Actually, 'This Glamorous Life' would have been a far better title for the blog, now I think of it. Or 'My Brilliant Career', if that hadn't already been taken.
So it's too much to do, not a shortage of things to say that's the problem. In fact there are several half-written posts on hold. So look for something on further bad writing on Shanghai, on just how much extra work second-rate PR people create for writers, about a trip to another one of the kinds of PR event I usually avoid, and on what can and cannot be known about China. Oh, and I will be posting from on the road over six weeks in May and June. I promise.
All coming soon to a blog near you.
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