The Tenth Hour (on the Tenth Day)

I've now been back at UCSD for just over a week. In the hectic quarter system, my work has already been piling up for me. I've got around thirty pages to read for tomorrow about Hinduism and sixty for Tuesday in a Chinese Philosophy book. I just got back from the commuter lounge (though I live on campus), having finished notes on a presentation in political philosophy for Making of the Modern World for Wednesday based on twenty-five pages of dense primary sources for Tuesday.

It's been three weeks since I returned from Hong Kong and I've still got conflicting feelings about being back. Though I have not experienced the reverse culture shock that I so expected, I'm conflicted about if it was really the right thing for me to have stayed for one semester rather than a full year. I left behind some great friends there, but then again may of them left too, and I do have some great friends here. Classes there were simplistic and straightforward, and now I'm finding myself challenged by what I have to read, which I think is a good thing.

Still in the middle of all this madness I've been working on editing my blog for studying abroad, entitled In the Quest of the Fragrant Harbour, since I went to Hong Kong, famous in part for its Victoria Harbour. I'm also preparing documents for the courts. I plan to modify my name officially and keep my birth name as my pen name.

So in the middle of this, why am I writing a new blog when I should probably be sleeping? See, I just got to the point where my conclusion for my other blog is in an acceptable condition for publication. I actually meant to get that blog squared off before Christmas. Instead, the bulk of it was completed by New Year's Eve.

I know that to make something interesting, you have to have a subject in the matter. For my first blog, that subject was clear and defined: my study abroad. Now I guess is the time for everything after, though I will definitely be drawing parallels to my life before my study abroad. In short, I guess I'll focus on commentary--commentary on what interests me.

We'll see how it shapes up.