Published on Dec 26, 2025

• **Tagged: **
• #irl

Good god. What year is it? Things got very quiet here on the blog at the end of this year. Do I really need to do another "why I haven’t been blogging" post? Alright. Let’s recap.

After the flurry of posting brought on by Blaugust (which I literally completely forgot about), things slowly cooled off in September. Then I lost my job, and started working on some personal projects I’d had in the back of my mind for a while, namely What Else Is On? and My Cool Blog. After that, things got pretty quiet outside of the usual monthly What Else Is On? post.

The good news is that things got quiet here because I found some solid freelance work pretty quickly after losing my full-time gig, and rapidly got very busy.

For the first half of October, I was courting various freelance jobs that popped up when I came back on the market. I was also sort of out of commission for two weeks for two back-to-back trips, as documented in a previous post.

When I got back, I was normal busy for a while (just need to place this gun on the mantle for a second). I found the time to post about NYC’s next mayor, make some personal art, and post a life update. The normal busy-ness lasted until around November 17th (say, what’s the date of my last non-WEIO post?).

From the middle of November through the first week of December, I became embroiled in one of the most demanding and least organized projects I’ve yet experienced as an editor. I worked through three weekends in a row, around Thanksgiving, late into the night, pulling multiple 10–12 hour days in a row. I would leave my desk at night, go right to bed, wake up to Slack messages in the morning, and go right back to my desk. December 1st to the 8th was an 80–hour week.

My girlfriend started making my lunch and cooking us dinner by herself (both of which I ate at my desk) because I would keep saying that I was about to take a break, not take a break, and then end up eating lunch at 3 or 4pm. There was always one more little detail the client needed taken care of immediately, or a previous note they needed to contradict. I was stressed out of my freaking mind.

This probably sounds familiar to anyone who’s worked a shitty, crunch-y schedule in some capacity. Maybe you’ve worked worse hours, and this doesn’t sound so bad, but brother, I was a husk.

The week after we wrapped, I was shell-shocked. I was just relieved to finally be able to eat dinner with my girlfriend again. We also needed to go hang out at the botanic garden with some friends, meet up with my sister to exchange Christmas gifts (somehow I found time to buy people presents on time!!!!), jump through the bullshit hoops required to renew our marketplace healthcare before the deadline, and I needed to roll over my previous job’s 401k before that deadline (I say "needed," but two of those things were very fun).

A week later, we were traveling for the holidays.

So here I am. In the middle of my holiday break. Mostly not blogging, even though blogging was what I most desperately wanted to do while I was busy (besides sleep, and eat, and exchange multiple sentences with my girlfriend). I meant to write this post about a week earlier so that a month prior to its posting would encompass more of the time I was super busy, and the title would make more sense.

But I mostly don’t give a honk, because I’m enjoying doing nothing. I’m hanging out with my family, sleeping late, watching The Price is Right, riding around in a golf cart, and not doing a whole lot else. And loving it. I needed some time to do nothing, and let somebody else take the wheel for a bit.

I might have a few more posts before the end of the year, or I might not. I’ve been drained as hell, and I’m not going to force anything. Gotta let my creative juices build back up naturally. Of course, I’ll have my annual GOTY and Every Game posts before too long. I’m sure once I’ve adequately rested, I’ll come roaring back with all those other posts I’ve been wanting to finally get out. I’ve got quite the backlog!

I hope you’ve all been well out there in the blogosphere! I still have a lot of your posts to catch up on in my RSS reader. Wishing you all a nice relaxing holiday season!

Back with more soon!