Farewell

So I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, but not about blogging, which is why I'm convinced that this will be my last post here for the foreseeable future. A couple of reasons for this.

First, I intended this as a small vanity project for my year in Chicago. Now that my year in Chicago is coming to a close, it's only fitting that the blog do so as well.

Second, I'm not convinced this is the medium I'm most comfortable writing in. I like writing, it's true, and I like sharing thoughts with others but I'm also turned off the hierarchy and obstrepsousness of the blogging world. I'm not willing to do what it takes to write a blog of which I can be proud, by the standards of the blogosphere.

Third, I'll echo David Greenberg: perhaps I'm just not cut out for blogging. I'll maintain the perspective of reader and not of participant.

Fourth, and this is the most significant reason and will sound weirdest of all, I just can't tell what's real anymore. I'm struggling with establishing what is real. I know this is strange and I can't articulate it as well as I would like but I can't figure out the connection of the political events I might blog about to my life and, conversely, why no one blogs about things that really have some importance, like relationships, jobs, serious ideas, and so forth.

Fifth, there's all kinds of practical reasons. I'm leaving behind regular access to the Internet for the foreseeable future, I've got a job that will leave with me little spare time I want to spend on this, etc., etc.

Farewell.