Doesn’t it kill you when you just get excited about a new blog you’re reading, or a fun new internet personality who updates regularly, and you really feel like you’ve got a good thing going, and then suddenly BAM!  The blogger announces he or she will be taking a brief hiatus for “personal reasons” or to reevaluate priorities or some equally open-ended excuse?

It kills me.

Which is why it kills me to have to do it to you today…

…not really.  I wouldn’t do something that I hate having done to myself.

But I do think there are going to be some changes happening around here—just temporarily.  I don’t have quite enough brain matter to go around right now, it seems.  Today, after turning in my last paper of the semester, I felt total relief, but the lousy kind of relief laced with dread, because I know it’s not even close to being over yet—I still have two weeks of classes, plus final exams, and that’s only this semester.  Who knows how many I’ll have left before I escape the collegiate crap-hole with my ridiculous piece of paper graduate?  I don’t even want to think about it.

I disliked college before I moved to Canada, and I dislike it just as much now—or maybe worse, because I have to trek from the parking lot to the campus in snow and hurricane-force wind, which is just awful.  At any rate, I am a bad example to all the kiddies out there because my advice is to graduate from high school and then run—don’t walk—as far away as humanly possible from any sort of institutionalised education from there on out.  College never did a thing for me but break my spirit and suck dry the pockets of those who cared enough to keep me enrolled.

Like I said…I may not be the best example for your children.

In case you couldn’t tell, I’m feeling a bit blue these days.  I think it’s a combination of missing home, missing green grass, missing my days of freedom, and missing a piece of my heart.  Something’s just…missing inside me.  {Or maybe I’m just suffering from depression; all the good bloggers do, and I always did want to be one of the good bloggers…}  I am consummately burnt out, but there’s no time for that—I still have three weeks to survive.  I need to prepare myself for the barrage of the upcoming month, because the ride’s not over yet, and it’s foolish to be running on empty during times like these.

I either need to snap out of it, or get myself some heavy sedatives—I can’t keep living like this.

Thus, since my brain is already functioning at ultra-too-full capacity, I am sorry to announce that I will temporarily be cutting down my time online.  I hate to do it—I hate missing even one day on the internet, but it has to be.

And when something has to be, there’s nothing more to be done than simply to do it.  A wiser version of myself said that once upon a time (who am I kidding—wise people have been saying it for ages; I’m nothing special).

Image from here, though I wish I could say it’s from my own house.  I need one of these posters.

So I’m sorry if you don’t see my comments on your blogs as frequently as normal.  I’ll do my best to keep calm and carry on and post five days a week.

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