I have too many blogs/Europe

let me count. Through middle school and high school I stayed pretty loyal to xanga, but since college I’ve had flirtations with blogger, wordpress, livejournal, twitter, and now tumblr, in addition to journals and moleskines and doodles on edges of agendas, its definitely become a problem. In my effort to record and preserve all the moments in life that I want to remember, they have become scattered all across cyberspace >.<

The problem is I haven’t found a single one with all of the features that I like. Blogger has a nice private feature but doesn’t have interesting layouts. tumblr is quick to use and versatile but I’m confused about how to add comments. Wordpress was cleancut at first but is now just frustrating, I think i’m going to have to let that one go. Oh, and I gave up on livejournal a long time ago. I suppose for now I’ve settled on tumblr…

I’m in Europe for the summer. Currently in Naxos, where we are staying in a hotel that directly overlooks the water, essentially perched on a cliff. There is an old french couple in the suite next to mine (all the rooms at this hotel are equipped with living room, full kitchen, and patio/balcony), and everyday they sit on their patio in pajamas, drink wine, and smoke cigarettes. The lady walks around in a shapeless, oversized, black dress and no shoes. They seem to blend into the landscape and the way of life here. slow. calm. as constant as the waves that continually lap against the shore. But I guess I am also quickly acclimating to this way of life. Internet is rare, I haven’t talked on my phone since leaving O'hare, and since I have no cell phone and do not own a watch, I never have any clue what time it is. I have also lost complete track of the day of the week, as days spent sitting on beaches and wading through waters with sand between your toes all seem to blend, with alternating states of consciousness and unconsciousness.