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Faithmouse Taking Pause
Elizabeth
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An Updated Inkling
Elizabeth
It’s amazing when one simply cannot blog, that the need to post something is the strongest. Last Sunday I was in the ER with a nasal cannula on my nose, IV in my left forearm, oximeter on my left index finger, BP cuff on my right arm, and the tele monitor on my chest, when I had the most dire need to post on this blog. I eyed the computer on the wall next to the crash cart, its pristine keyboard appearing to have not been used for months. I still remember my password (I worked in this facility last year), although I’m sure it had already been deleted. I saw the little IE icon on the left side of the screen. I never myself went online at work; I was too busy or too nervous that my super would catch me.
But oh, I had these drafts waiting for me to finish and post. Six of them. One is about blogging burnout and the bloggers who have left the ’sphere such as Paul at Wizbang and the two bloggers at You Knit What??, and of my own burnout and how I frequently miss the boat on a lot of issues because I was too appalled and felt at a loss for words, or how I felt like Cassandra sometimes, or I simply was not able to sit at this keyboard long enough when inevitably I had to go and take care of something. And there’s my post about consequenses that I began for Christian Women Online’s In “Other” Words, with that particular week’s quote coming from CS Lewis, and how although the particular subject is now past, I needed to rewrite it because my original post didn’t do it justice and now I had something better and that I still wanted it posted (did any of that make sense?).
I was on that guerney, my heartbeat in the 200s, the nurse drawing blood to check my electrolytes, and my thoughts were on blogging!
My husband said it’s because I was still, for once.
Of course now that I’m home priorities got the better of blogging. I needed to work on Dani’s homeschooling schedule and her college paperwork, run errands, make doctor’s appointments, care for my mom, call Mikey, clean the house, do laundry, work on crochet/quilt/cards for my store, get groceries, cook…
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A Reminder
Elizabeth
This blog exists.
*sigh*
Kathryn Judson 7:29 am on August 16, 2006 Permalink
I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or send congratulations that you’re not stuck in the hospital as a patient… But I’m glad you’re OK.
Two bloggers on my links list checked out just this week, one for a ‘mini-vacation’ (until she reaches a point where her ‘writer’s voice’ isn’t trying to make a blog post out of every little thing she does), the other for what he called a blog fast (he’s not going to blog or read blogs until the end of September, he says). Burnout is in the air, or something.
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Elizabeth 6:42 am on August 27, 2006 Permalink
Hi, Kathryn,
Thanks. Blogging is time-consuming for me (and probably for many folks), and it doesn’t help that I’m a slow typist; I never learned to type and never took the time to learn. Add that to the numerous demands for my time this past year, blogging has really fallen by the wayside.
Plus, I’ve also been feeling burned out since Terri died.
However, this blog is something I just can’t toss out. It’s been a labor of love and a lot of time invested. I really like blogging.
Regards,
~Elizabeth