scijessreads

For the last year, I’ve been pretty good here at posting every week. I would batch posts and schedule them ahead of time most weeks, to keep up with things while my day job took precedence. And I love writing here. It’s an outlet that I didn’t know I needed until I started it. Work does give me some avenues of creativity, but nothing like this. Honestly, writing here has brought me back to when I was younger and would love to write poetry and short stories and have fun with it. Most of my adult hobbies are things I used to do when I was growing up. Not sure what that says about me, but it is what it is. Or maybe reading and spilling my thoughts on the internet aren’t all that weird of a hobby. Anyways…

All of that intro to say that I am taking a bit of a pause. These last few months at work have been busy and tiring, more so than previous semesters. And I am hitting the bottom of the well in terms of energy and capacity. I need a break to let myself not worry about 27 different things that need to get done. Writing here is an outlet and a hobby, not a job. And I would like to keep being able to do it without starting to resent it and having to disappear completely from this little space I’ve built up.

I’m think that I should be back around mid-May. A good two week break sounds like it should be enough time to recover from the semester, and figure out what I’m going to focus on during my summer months off. Also, it will give me a chance to appreciate what I do here more when it doesn’t feel like an obligation, which it kinda does at the moment. Even reading, my first love, is starting to lose its luster, which is not a good sign. I’m depleted, and need time to recharge and recalibrate. We all do at some point. I’ll be back with new words soon. For now, there’s a lot here in the archives to explore. See you soon!