Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Hanging Up My Spurs

It's not that I don't want to write. It's not that I'm "over" blogging. I do want to, I just can't. I love this blog. I love writing in it, I love thinking up what I'm going to write in it. I've got a million stories built up in my head that I would love to sit down and write. But if I'm going to finish this dissertation in anything remotely approaching the alloted time in which I will be funded to write, I've got to focus my energies.

This would've been a cleaner break if I'd just stopped for good when I said I would earlier this summer, but I found upon quitting that I missed it too much. Well I still miss it, but I've got an assload of work to get done - work I actually enjoy doing, which is a nice change from the status quo - and I can't sit at the library and daydream about blogging right now. So I'm sorry, blog, and I'm sorry, me. But this pony is going to take a nice long nap in its stall. It may come out once or twice every now and then when something just too good comes along, or if i get a chance to take another cool trip, but I can no longer maintain the pretense that I'll post tomorrow. Too many interviews to transcribe, too much work to get done right now. In lieu of cheastypants, I'd like to direct your attention to a little blog written by a student (friend of mine) who is studying abroad in China. It's fantastic, and makes me laugh out loud. It's called Keller's Cogitations. Go, read, be merry.

Adios, mundo mio. Talk to you all later.

12 comments:

Kate said...

I'll go visit that other blog, but I'm not going to be happy about it. **kicking the dirt**

You gotta do what you gotta do. We know you'll be back, it's like a drug.

Renny said...

Aww, Cheastypants, now I miss you even MORE! I'm sure Kevin will appreciate the shout-out, once the Chinese govt allows him to log into blogspot again.

Anonymous said...

Aww so sad! Cheastypants will be missed!

Love, The Fairy King and Sweet BabyFace

The Reader said...

Well ok then.

Christopher Paul said...

Wow, Keller's Cogitations is really good. And he has comments. I love comments.

Anonymous said...

OMG, say it isn't so. 've been lurking on your blog ever since the record album covers THE FIRST TIME. At one point this past winter I thought we had lost you. For some reason your blog stopped just before the new year. I figured you were very busy and weren't posting. Sometime in like June or July I was jonesing for some Cheasty so I ivestigated further. Come to find out, for some reason your webpage wasn't updating for me and I had MONTHS to look back on. I was so very happy to see that you hadn't left at all, it was just some www mixup. Whilst I am saddened that you won't be updating us on a regular basis, I understand your need to take care of the really important stuff. Good luck with your dissertation and come back to us when you can.

A follower in Ohio

Cheasty said...

thanks, y'all, and hello Ohio Lurker. I miss it already, and am struggling not to cave in. Must... resist... draw... of.... internet.....

Kevin said...

Thanks, Cheasty! But now all I have to look at every day will be lolcats.

Anonymous said...

Noooooo! This is like the end of a TV show, except we didn't see it coming. Who put you up to this Cheastypants? If I came over would your hands be tied behind your back and a group of mafia men who obviously hate hilariously witty blog entries be holding your laptop captive? I think so.

Good luck on the rest of the dissertation, Cheastypants. Your friends are always just a click away.

Hugs
Cookie

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