Been gone too long
Posted by: lucie | From: January 7, 2008
Well, hello hello. We've been a little bit out of touch, you and me. Life got so busy, and private time got so scarce. I wrote a dissertation, finished my MBA, moved back to the States a week too late to say goodbye to my grandmother, met my baby niece, met my boyfriend's family and introduced him to mine, got settled for the short-term and started looking for a job. Friends, this job search has not been going well. But that will be a topic for another time, I suppose.
For now, a brief explanation for the neglect of the old blog. The main thing, really, is that I've been in a relationship for about 15 months now, and my other half doesn't know about this thing. I don't particularly care to let him read all my anonymous (is 'pseudonymous' a word?) neurotic musings from the past couple years, and I didn't feel comfortable continuing to write "behind his back," if you will, hence the whole blog just fizzled. It was difficult enough finding time to write when we were students and spent so much time together; now we're both unemployed and living together, and it's near impossible. And I don't like sneaking. It's just weird.
So given that this thing (relationship) seems fairly serious, what to do? We at Overarching are contemplating a fresh start. Perhaps it's a good time for it anyway; returning from my brief hiatus, I noticed an Urho post from Mr Mikey M's blog about spam running rampant, with my blog being one of the prime targets for whatever reason (most likely the abundance of dirty words in the early days). The "legit" comments that have been left on old entries in the past month have also been weirdly negative, as if people have landed on old entries of mine by googling people and/or things they hate and then taken the opportunity to vent.
Before I left the UK, I burned my old journals. It felt good. I've never been a big fan of permanence. You'd see that if you looked at my resume, by the way, and this doesn't seem to be a characteristic employers much appreciate. But again, that is a topic for another time.
Anyway, here I am. I'm alive and apologize for my flakiness, just in case it happened to throw anyone off. I'm out here thinking things over.
Welcome back. You've been missed. I do hope this isn't goodbye. If you delete this blog (not effective - posts live in archives forever) and start a new journal elsewhere (I recommend Blogger - you can block searches), I'd be honored if you'd leave a signpost, or a comment on my (new) journal. Best of luck in your new life.
Silk
Posted by: ~~Silk at January 10, 2008 5:10 PM
well lucie, i guess this is it then. it's been wonderful. no hard feelings...
Posted by: matt mc at January 10, 2008 2:17 PM