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Blogcation, Trying to Get Away

It can no longer be avoided: I am undeniably, irreverisbly, incontrovertibly out-of-sorts. I am not quite all there. I am addlepated, flimflammed, knickknackered and flapdoodled. I am anything that can be adequately depicted by a film of me walking in circles, listing slightly to the left, limping heavily, with steam coming out of the top of my head, emitting tiny mewls of distress. My friends, I have had it.

The symptoms are pessimism, self-loathing, the inability to concentrate and a sense that I, not just something I'm working on but I, personally, have jumped the shark, outlived my usefulness, reached my tiny little pathetic peak, it's all downhill from here, etc.

I have decided to go on blogcation, starting Monday. I do this in the combined hope that I can avoid spewing my angst all over the place, and that if I cut off the creative flow in one direction I can redirect it toward some work that might actually result in getting paid, an avenue in which I have found myself completely stalled, unable to even get started really (and a major reason for my sense of flailing despair).

This is where I ask you, dear readers, to become involved. I hate to neglect this place. It makes me all twitchy when I look at the calendar to the right and see more than two days without an entry. I'm a wee bit compulsive. (Not to mention the terrible fear of dwindling site stats.)

So, like any good worker bee taking her vacation, I'm delegating my work while I'm gone. I'm seeking guest entries to be posted in my absence. Please send me your little somethings - essays, lists, rants, whatever you like - and I will select my favorites and post them for the next week, July 14th-July 20th. If your entry goes up here, you'll get: 1) Links to your blog or site if you've got one; 2) Compliments; 3) My undying gratitude; and 4) A little something in the mail (probably cookies or small plastic things).

Please send me your entries by 9am on Monday, July 14th if you'd like to play. Thanks for helping me out, and I hope to return on the 21st with a successful brain realignment.

I must note that I totally jacked the general idea of this from Weetabix, and just came up with the "witty" Blogcation moniker. I hope she does not mind, because I am pretty sure she could kick my sorry ass. Then again, right now I am pretty sure chewing gum could kick my sorry ass, so why worry? I'm sure someone else will get me long before she can.

Posted by hilatron at July 10, 2003 10:49 AM