I have started posting over at The Memphis Blog again.
The first thing I did when I decided to take a hiatus two months ago (prompted, mostly, by the fact that I have very little time to do blog cultivation during work hours now since the newsroom reorgnization, and I was spending a TON of hours at home doing for free what I should probably be getting paid to do) was unsubscribe from every Memphis blog feed that didn’t contribute anything meaningful to my life. That means I unsubscribed from a lot of blog feeds.
The most daunting challenge I face now is making sure I am up to the task of resubscribing and wading through all that stuff again without letting it bog down my life like it did before, when I would go to a friend’s house after work to hang out, and then end up tabbing through Google Reader and making 4 a.m. posts about local reactions to news. While that may be super useful for our readers, it burned me out and fast.
I have got to find a good way to manage my time because I refuse to devote as many home hours to the blog as I did in year one of its existence. Seriously. You have to slog through a lot of shit to get to the pearls. I hope that’s not insulting. I feel like that’s pretty much the case for the entire internet. So here’s hoping I can do a better job this time around.
If you get bored, please come visit!