And so it ends
I got back from a short but exciting trip to Shanghai on Sunday evening, where I got to see my dear friend Lin in person for the first time ever and go on some adventures with her. We visited a cat cafe, the Shanghai University Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Century Park, and several restaurants that served delicious food, and I almost wound up stranded at Pudong Airport indefinitely after misreading a letter on the itinerary for my return flight. (Yes, dear readers, mistaking an a for a p can be a high-impact mistake.) Photos from the trip can be viewed here.
I also think this is as good a time as any to make an announcement: this will be the last post I ever make on LiveJournal. I've had this blog for nearly 15 years now, and while I got a lot of use out of it from 2003 to 2011, I find that I've been using it exponentially less since then. I still haven't caved and gotten a Twitter account, and Facebook is a much better platform for reaching a larger audience - of all the people on my LiveJournal friends list, only one (who also uses Facebook) updates her journal regularly, and if anyone else even reads my entries, they don't bother to comment. It hardly seems worthwhile to copy entries from LJ to Facebook (or vice versa) when I have to fix the formatting and links each time and am, at best, barely enlarging my digital footprint or reader base by posting here.
I don't plan on deactivating this journal any time soon, mostly because of the history behind it. I may return from time to time like a curator looking over the exhibits at his museum, but I have no intention of writing any more LJ entries unless the site undergoes a massive resurgence in popularity and/or makes its blogging interface more convenient for crossposting. Anyone who likes my writing enough to follow me can look me up and friend me on Facebook, or else e-mail me directly. My e-mail address is on my user page for all to see.
Thanks for all the memories, dear readers. Goodbye and safe travels, until or unless we see each other again in the virtual (or actual) frontier.