When I announced to my friends that I was moving to Korea for a year, the typical response was usually something akin to “You’ve totally got to start a blog while you’re there! That would be awesome to read!” This gave me pause, as I admit to being something of a closet narcissist. I like nothing better then to discuss myself for hours upon hours, but I am also well aware that nobody else has this desire but me. So to save myself from being socially ostracized I usually keep these egotistical urges in check.
So I never took this website down the blog route. I mean, look around. The last thing the world needs is another blog. I vowed that this website would never go down that road. I used this space for storing my games and any other little digital diversions I cared to share and nobody needed to know my personal thoughts on the latest Star Wars film or if I was feeling sad that day. There are already enough crappy angst-ridden personal journals frolicing about on the web that I had no desire to add to the muddle.
Yet over the last couple of months, a number of people of my aquantence starting clamouring for me to do just that! My first reaction, naturally, was an immediate negative. But then the thus-far-silent egotist inside my soul clamored for attention. “Dude!” it cried. “Here’s your big chance! Shut up and let me take over.” So, yeah. Here is the newly spruced-up davelgil.com, home to a new blog about a befuddled American with frizzy hair currently living in South Korea trying to teach the English language to little ones. I don’t know if that will be enough to set me apart from most of the tripe out there, but if anything it will give the starving narcissist in me something to do. Who knows what it’ll do if it gets angry?