{"id":14122,"date":"2012-07-19T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/07\/19\/14122.html"},"modified":"2012-07-19T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T17:18:30","slug":"return-of-the-once-a-week-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/07\/19\/return-of-the-once-a-week-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the once-a-week blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week was more difficult than I'd expected. Stepping down from SH<\/cite> fiction editing is absolutely the right thing for me to do, but making the public announcement (and handing a bunch of specific tasks off to Brit) made it feel more real. I got pretty sad about it. (There's also been some difficult non-magazine personal stuff going on.)<\/p>\n

Thanks to all who sent lovely comments and notes and thanks and praise, in all sorts of places. (Mostly on my farewell entry on the SH<\/cite> blog<\/a> and on Facebook<\/a>, but also on my blog and in email and on Twitter and various other places.) That was really nice to see, and gratifying. Much appreciated.<\/p>\n

This week has been better, though still sad. Was recontacted out of the blue by two newish friends who I hadn't seen in the past few months, and have been watching a short-lived but excellent 2006 TV series called Day Break<\/cite> (more on which soon, I hope) (but instead of waiting for me to describe it, you could just watch it; all 13 eps are available via Netflix streaming, and it's really good). Also been watching Sherlock<\/cite> with Kam. And am still rewatching Gilmore Girls<\/cite> while entering fiction submissions into the database, and recently got to my very favorite part of the entire series, the first few episodes of season 5, during which I spent minutes at a time making incoherent squeeing noises out loud and then rewinding to watch certain scenes again. So all of that's been cheering me up.<\/p>\n

California weather remains near-perfect (though today is overcast), I have a newly installed backyard lawn (and the whole backyard is usable), am making progress on day job things I've been back-burnering for months. So there's been a bunch of good stuff.<\/p>\n

Have lots of magazine work left to do before I fully depart the department, but it's mostly stuff I like doing and\/or stuff I should've done years ago, like making various parts of the database usable by people other than me.<\/p>\n

My list of Projects that I'd like to start in my new copious free time continues to grow, of course. I'm once again in that phase where I notice that I'm about to have x amount of free time, and so I plan at least 3x worth of activities and Projects. Am trying to resist that urge; I want my biggest Project for the next couple of months to involve relaxing.<\/p>\n

I have plenty of things I'd like to blog about; for example, saw six movies over the course of seven days a couple weeks ago, and my backlog of cool stuff to post to the wordblog grows ever-longer. But all that'll have to wait.<\/p>\n

Next week, I'll be on vacation with college friends in upstate New York. I expect to have Internet access, but don't know how much I'll be online. But within a week or two after that, I expect the magazine transition to be mostly over, and maybe I'll get back to blogging more. We'll see.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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