If you read my recent post on the four-year itch, you’ll notice that I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘where from here’. Actually, if you’ve read any of the posts since the end of last year, you’ll have noticed a definite trend in not being sure as to what the next step for me is.

I’ll get to my bigger thoughts on the subject later, as I’ve been mulling over them for some time. But I think a slight sidetrack is worth considering because it actually will be a good prequel to those thoughts… To make this easier reading, I may split this up into pages: it is a rather long essay. Seriously. This is an essay. But it’s worth the read, even if it is long
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Last week, after having made the (relunctanct) decision to once again up my web hosting package, I was checking my web stats. I used to be really anal about checking them, not wanting to miss out on some ‘important’ logs of what people find popular. Since going to Atlanta last year and getting out of the habit of checking them every five seconds, I tend to only check maybe every few days; or if I get spammed, sometimes the comment looks spammy but I check my stats just in case.

Anyway, I’d just seen a google search in my stats – puppetry in Australia – and was gleefully/sadly seeing that UNIMA Australia’s website, still with its ‘coming soon’ message, was higher in the rank than my site. Gleeful in that my hard work was paying off; sad that I’ve actually made myself compete with … myself!

In thinking about it, writing a decent post on ‘puppetry in Australia’ is a good idea. Although it sounds quite generic, it’s not. This site proves it in more ways than one: puppetry in Australia is incredibly hard to find. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been more active with UNIMA Australia, and why I wanted to redevelop their site.

My first step into what I would call the consciousness of the local puppetry community is something that somewhat haunts me to this day. Although I’m told nobody remembers it, I do, very much so that I remark on it as being how I’m ‘known’ in the community. Whether it’s true or not, I can’t say, but I do know it struck a chord.

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