Yes, so I’ve changed the theme of this site again. Moving from Blogger to Wordpress has really fucked up my already puny productivity. Now that I have all this open-source power in my hand, I can do what I do best with my blog: freeload off of other people’s labor. And, with thousands and thousands of themes out there to choose from, what am I supposed to do…work?! Haha, very funny.

All of this started when my little post about Whisk dropping its free wireless Internet got picked up by THE blog du Shanghai, Shanghaiist itself (see link here). It was soon thereafter that I got an e-mail from the man himself, Shanghaiist editor Dan Washburn (I’ve shamefully kissed his ass on this blog before for no particular reason), asking if I’d like to be a contributor. Would I!?

Since then, I’ve been added to the Shanghaiist contributor distribution list. Since I still can’t shake the always-cool feeling of being in a top-secret club for cool people, I’m going to err on the side of dorkiness and say that I can’t describe what actually happens on that list. Suffice it to say that the future of blogging in Shanghai hinges on what happens in there.

It was on a dreary afternoon this past week that, one of the top-secret e-mails referenced the website of a Megan Shank. Apparently she’s a translator and editor who’s been in China around four years, and from the looks of it she’s very articulate and intelligent. And, since she chose the exact same theme that I did for this site’s more recent reincarnation, she also appears to have VERY good taste.

Now, we’ll never know who discovered the theme first, and since neither of us actually put effort into creating it, it probably doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things. However, I did spend a good deal of time choosing it, and as such I had a difficult time accepting that someone else so close to me in proximity (both physically and bloggily) was employing the same theme.

So, today is a new day, and this blog now has a new look. In my attempt to find something somewhat more unique, I’ve strayed far down the Google search results (page 34!) for this one. And what a bitch it was to install! I actually had to learn some rudimentary CSS and play with the code quite a few times before I could get it just this way. At the end of the day, though, I’m pleased with it. I think. Wait, let me search some more just to be sure…

For those of you interested, here’s my first (and only, so far) post for Shanghaiist. I even got a snarky comment out of it! My first! I’m so proud. And probably the only one feeling that emotion.