More deeply disturbing developments from the Pacific are now coming to light, in the same mold as the ones discovered earlier this month...
Erm, no. Your concerns have grown stale, I think. I am here. The government is functioning, we have bills on the floor.
I won't deny that many, indeed most, of your criticisms are valid, but your astute observation of my lapses would have served the Pacific would have been been of greater use to the Pacific and been taken not of far sooner, had you contacted me via private message or even made your remarks on my official thread, rather than in here, which seems to resemble a venue for you to use political opponents' misdeeds as political weapons more than anything else...
I'm an...
easily distractable person, to put it mildly, and it's been very easy for me to come on the Atlas to see what business there is to attend to, and finding none, proceed to waste a great deal of valuable time browsing the forum when I have work to do. Particularly in recent weeks, where I've had a great deal of work and considerably little sleep, I've tended to become rather obsessive about avoiding potential distractions, and hence my virtual absence from the forum (and the IRC, if you'd notice).
This, of course,
does not justify my not doing my job, absolutely not. Being Governor, even in an online election game, is not a "distraction" but a responsibility. I fully acknowledge I've neglected that responsibility recently, and the blame for that lies squarely on my feet. But the Pacific cannot be a one-man show. I've probably approached about two dozen forumers, at this point, about registering in the Pacific, with diminishing success over time and "excessive" success with a few (it seems all of our senior officials have become federal officeholders as of late).
While I can say that with the semester coming to a close fairly soon, a month of break, and the start of a new semester that would be as slow as always, I'd imagine I'd be on here more often in the next few months then I have as of late. But if we to prevent ourselves from getting into situations like this again, we need to boost activity across the board and not just at the top, so that a governor can't go AWOL for a week before anyone notices; this probably entails structural reform.
I will note, once again, that I have long pushed the position that Atlasia simply cannot sustain five regions with the active population it has, which, I think it could be said, has remained pretty constant for the past few years. We've always had a "sickly" region, and while, once again, this doesn't absolve me of responsibility, we can either keep on using these sorts of incidents to make partisan pot-shots or we can talk about structural reform, namely regional consolidation (and not blatant gerrymandering under the guise of such, either).
And now I have a meeting to go to that started 20 minutes ago... do feel free to show your deep concern about anything else I may be forgetting while I'm gone.
