My Absentee Note
This afternoon, I found two emails in my inbox … one right next to the other. One came in at 2:33 PM – that one was from Pattie, the Domesticator. The second one came 3 minutes later, and it was from Vijay.
Both of them were comments that were forwarded to me from the blog.
Ok….it’s been a month since my last comment….A Month!
Are you coming back? I miss you *sniff*
And Vijay’s:
A little more than a month since my last comment.
Anyone see a parallel here? Maybe a theme, even? I bet they discussed this on the sly before posting, eh? I mean, DUDE! Three minutes apart, even! If it were a baby, it would have been born seconds later! ;o)
Seriously though … I apologize to everyone for being gone so long. In the past, I’ve written some starkly honest posts, but the really intense posts, full of raw honesty, dealt with things that happened many years ago. Time had dulled the edge of the associated ouch, and I could write about the horrible events of the past from the perspective of someone who’s seen how the story ends, and has gone over it so often that the area is largely numb. I could use my past as a tool to perhaps free someone else in the present, because it was a course I’d already graduated from.
However, the position I find myself in right now is not quite as cut and dry, and I’m not at all removed from the situation by the anesthetizing ministrations of time. Worse still – I have no idea how it all ends.
Being that I’m not as brave as a certain Australian doc we all know and love, I haven’t got any real revelations to share. I will just say that the events of last fall, which piled up on top of some rather difficult ongoing circumstances, followed me like a pack of pertinacious black hounds into a long, dark, cold, and paralyzing winter. You would seriously not have wanted to read anything I’d written over the winter, believe me.
The gentle, but vibrant, hues of summer, and the sun’s healing warmth, are bringing me back to life a bit again. It’s like taking a long drink of cold fresh water after crossing a seemingly endless desert. As affective as the summer is, however, I know that it’s only a partial (and temporary) reprieve from some very serious and ongoing situations. Blogging with any regularity would be very difficult for me right now. Please continue to be patient with me – I don’t intend to be gone forever.
Thank you all for your concern. It’s been a shelter from the cold for me, even when I couldn’t reply.
Next week I have finals in my current course, and the week after that is one of the two free weeks the school gives us every year. If possible, I will take a bit of that time to do some patient blogging.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Hi Miss Moof, good to hear that you are still about, although a bit beaten up by last year’s awful happenings. Take care of yourself and I hope to hear more from you in the break.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:57 am
I’ll just echo JMB. Always good to hear from you Moof.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
We miss you, Moofie! Glad to hear that you’re still alive and kickin’. Hope the summer is therapeutic. :)
June 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
No conspiracy or working on the sly. I had subscribed to the email notifications for follow-up comments on your earlier post and was just checking to see who had commented after so long. Then I just checked when my comment on the post was and found it to be earlier than Pattie’s. Good to know you’re going to get a few days off from your busy course schedule. Relax and enjoy yourself. Blog if you feel like it.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
well… i understand the rough patch bit… have had it myself. take care of yourself and enjoy the two weeks off. miss you and take care ok
June 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
*hugs & prayers*
Wishing there was something that could be done to lighten the load. You know I always worry about you.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hey, Moofie…nice that you finally stuck your head out & posted again. Count me as another in that group who worried and wondered. In the meantime I did finally start up a blog, like I said I was considering a long time ago. If you’re ever curious I’ll send you the URL for it.
Keep us posted…you know your friends in the blogosphere worry when we don’t hear from you in a dog’s age. Hopefully things will settle again and summer will find you in a better place.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Moof, Totally understand. BTDT. {{{Hugs}}}
June 16th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Oh Moofie,
I am sorry if I muscled you into a reply ((((HUG))))
That’s my selfish side coming out…..*LOL*
It’s just that I do miss you….as I am sure many others do as well. I just wanted you to know I think about you and I care.
Take care of yourself. I am sorry that things are not going so well for you right now. I wish there were more I could do for you. E-mail me if you are up to it. If not, I totally understand.
Oh, and don’t let Vijay fool you….we seem to match up on quite a few of those silly Facebook quizzes…could it be some kindred spirit thing???? *LOL*
;-)
June 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Always good to see you post and know you’re still around. I think you’re probably mistaken about “not wanting to read anything you’d have posted” over last winter though..we CARE about you, dear. It’s not like I come here to be entertained, though your writing does certainly accomplish that. Classmate X is taking a forced hiatus from school this session; financing issues. However, he is still considered enrolled and will be back in full force for Summer B. After a rather traumatic scare, we found out that he will indeed have funds to graduate (yes it was in question) and that his future plans include Keller Grad. School instead of IIT.
I’m looking at possibly going for a Medical Office certificate; along with my Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certs in Excel and Word. The financing just isn’t there for me to go for an Associate’s from DeVry; one set of student loans is more than enough, thanks!
At the moment though, it’s same old, same old for me; cashiering and keeping house. Hope all continues to be better, and hope you feel like posting a bit more frequently. Love ya…
Shel
June 17th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Moof! It’s so good to see a post from you. Take care of what you need to. We understand. Thinking of you.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I noticed you finally got to post and let us all know you’re okay…this ameliorates the loss I’ve been feeling due to George Carlin having recently departed this mortal coil; that’s saying something (and it doesn’t involve seven dirty words).
I’m currently on a forced vacation from school (til Labor Day weekend/Summer B) courtesy of financial issues of my own so I’m taking the opportunity to brush up on other skills I’ll need when I graduate. After the Bachelors’ degree, I was originally planning to attend IIT for my Masters’ (think MIT only in Illinois) but that’s pricey; turns out Keller has Masters’ programs in IT/IS so I’ve decided to go that route, maybe a dual IT/MBA? As Tom Petty said, the future is wide open…