Since I started the blog, it has had over 2500 pageviews, which is much more than I thought I'd actually get when I started it, to be honest. The top posts (by pageview) are:
- Settling In
- Worst egg cartons, ever
- If you're a dude...
- Excessive packaging is excessive
- Keeping warm in drafty apartments
- In Tsukuba
- Resolutions
While it looks like people enjoy when I point out silly packaging decisions, assorted differences or complain about something. It also seems like you guys like when I post silly pictures of restroom signs or promise to do things.
It's interesting to me that some of my more thoughtful posts (like when I describe my local park or go act like a tourist) don't get as many pageviews as posts where I say "the egg cartons here are weird". I don't take it personally or anything like this, but I've been seeing these stats for a while and I thought it interesting enough to share.
Anyway, on to the Resolutions and their current statuses. Back in January, I resolved to do the following:
- Read more: With a goal of reading 30 books by the end of the year (and at least 15 by women).
- Draw more: Draw something every day.
- Run more: Run regularly with a goal of eventually signing up for and running a race.
- Study Japanese: Learn one kanji a day and spend some time each week learning to read/write/listen/speak.
- Blog more: Blog twice a week.
I've been doing pretty badly at drawing every day. I'm not sure the best way to try to force myself to be accountable here either. If I said that I'd post something online somewhere (maybe get a DeviantArt account or something) then that's a commitment I'd try to keep, but I don't have a scanner and don't really feel like posting crappy pictures of drawings.
I'm succeeding at running more. I'm back to running 5 km three times a week and am planning on increasing to four runs a week (in a nice, gradual way to avoid injury). I've also started looking for races around Tokyo, but I haven't registered for any yet.
I've definitely been doing well on learning kanji, with more than one per day on average (as I mentioned earlier). I haven't been studying grammar and speaking and the like as much as I should, but I've been working on that as well as trying to learn how individual kanji go together in words instead of by themselves much more lately, so hopefully I should improve on that. I still feel a bit intimidated when I try to speak, which often results in me just not saying anything (or I spend too long trying to think of what to say and the opportunity to say something passes). This definitely doesn't help me practice and it's something I still have to work on getting over.
Finally, with the exception of March and April, I have mostly been posting a blog entry twice a week. So this one is pretty successful so far and I plan on continuing it for the rest of the year.
Though I would really like to thank you guys for taking the time to read my blog. It's definitely much more motivating to post new things when I see that my posts are being read (or glanced at anyway). I don't think I would have made it to 50 posts on a regular schedule if I knew that nobody was reading my posts anyway. I hope you continue to read, because I really do enjoy writing these and I have a bunch of ideas for future posts that I'd like to share with you all.
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