August 5, 2013
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Xanga Survives: A look around the old haunts and more to come…
Well, apparently xanga has managed to survive. At least so I’m assuming from the fact that I can still log in. It’s kind of like coming back to a childhood home after a move away. Though I havent been gone that long, it seems ages have passed.
And I suppose that in some ways they have. I have no clue what my xanga friends have been up to, at least the ones with whom I communicate solely online. A few close friends and I elected to continue writing to each other via old fashioned letters. A step down in technology, but a grand return to interpersonal communication, something that despite my job, I still feel I sometimes lack.
And so, I putter about the place, sorting through old memories, wincing at pictures and posts of who I used to be, and enjoying the chronicle of whom I have become.
There are so many stories still left untold.
The completion of the Peru trip-I have gone back to keeping a paper journal on travels, so something will survive another internet website ending
The completion of residency. I made it out, but what came next-the surprisingly difficult struggle to find a job despite, or perhaps because of my level of education and specialty training.
My locums work (think temping, but for doctors) experiences in a geriatric all spanish speaking outpatient clinic, and my rural/3rd world hospitalist time spent in Kona Hawaii.
My upcoming return to the Midwest for a permanent position as a hospitalist, at least for the next several years.
The return of my stand-up comedy career.
And all the stories of what you, my friends and readers have been up to in all this time I have been busily concerning myself with the outside world.
Everything Changes. That’s the adventure we call living. However, it’s nice to know that I still have somewhere I can come back to at the end of the day to call home. So in whatever iteration you return xanga, I’ll be right there with all my things set up just the way I like them.
After all, I’m still one of the 24 hour people
-Dr J
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Hi!
Welcome back – missed your reports from the hospital.
I just happened to stumble upon your xanga entry because it was featured on Xanga’s home page. I, too, was reconnecting with my very old Xanga journal (it’s about 10 years old now, lol). It’s rather fun looking through years of memories and, through that, kind of visualizing how I’ve changed over the past decade. I was a little sad to hear of Xanga going away, and had anticipated it not being here a day or two ago, but here it is–still workin’. Just had to say it was refreshing and fun reading your entry and knowing that some people are still around on here. Thanks for posting!
It’s always nice to read updates. I know I’ve been a stranger for a while myself but I’m trying to come back home (xanga).
This post said so much of what I myself have been thinking – stories left untold, reminders of who I used to be, online friends who have become real-life friends.
Finally, a blog from you!
Be looking forward to reading more.
I did not know you are a stsnd up comedian, hehe. Xanga survived and glad to hear you will be moving back to US soon. Look forward to more blogs.