Wendy's Taking Her Toys And Going Home

So, for those of you who haven't gotten the memo - it pretty much sucks to be a librarian right now.  Actually, come to think of it, I'm trying to think of a time when it was "good" to be a librarian.  Hmmmm.  The late 1990s maybe?  I mean other than listening to morons tell me that the Internet was going to make the profession obsolete, the late 1990s were pretty frickin' sweet.  Plus, I was skinnier back then.  And younger.  And just all around cuter.  I know, all of this is hard to imagine.  Wendy used to be cuter?  How is that possible?

My Man says I'm too "raw" right now and probably shouldn't do anything rash.  He's probably right.  Don't tell him I said this, but he's right a lot.  Damn his black heart.  But I think I need to do it, because I'm just entirely too scatterbrained at the moment.

The long and the short of all this is that Real Life has reared her ugly head.  My job is....in flux. What does that mean?  Well, good question.  What I do know are words like "reorganization" are being tossed around.   The problem is that nobody really knows anything at the moment.  It's all very much still up in the air.  Word is I'm still going to have a job, but where that job will be and what I'll be doing isn't clear at the moment.

So yeah.  Wendy is a little distracted right now. 

To that end, the blog is taking a hiatus. I just need to take some time and decompress.  To see where the cards end up falling and make the necessary adjustments.

However, it won't be a total dead zone here.  I've promised reviews to people.  Although at the rate I'm reading who the hell knows what's going to get done when.  But, I've made commitments and I'm going to do my best to honor them, because that's how I roll.  Plus, Sybil is going to expect me to read and review some Harlequins....eventually.  Heroes & Heartbreakers, Criminal Element and Readers Gab are going to expect blog posts from me.  I told all these people "yes" - and I'm going to try my best to stick with that.  Which means this blog is going to become a little less active.  I'll pop in.  I'll still do occasional posts.  But right now my usual pace of 3-4 per week probably isn't going to happen.  At least not until things in Real Life settle down a wee bit.

ETA: 4/28/11

Unplugged, Sort Of

Starting this afternoon the Bat Cave is going into sorta, kinda unplugged mode.  No, I will not be at RT.  Instead I'll be knee-deep in entertaining the Super Librarian Parental Units, and making a brief pit stop at my library's annual Literary Event on Saturday to moderate our always awesome-sauce romance genre panel.

All of which means my cyberspace presence will be next to nil until the middle of next week.  Oh sure, I'll be checking my e-mail and probably skimming blog posts - but actually leaving comments?  Responding to comments on my own blog?  Being anywhere remotely near Twitter?  Yeah, likely not to happen.  Or it'll be extremely hit or miss.

I do have a couple of filler posts scheduled to go live this week, so the blog won't be a total dead zone.  Not that it's ever a hot bed of bustling activity over here - but uh, less bustling than usual at any rate.

For all of you heading to RT - have a fantabulous time!  For the rest of you, stay safe, stay good to each other, and try not to get sucked into any Internet WTF-ery while I'm away.

Media Blackout

The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us here in the States and I'm going to spend the next week in the middle of frickin' nowhere. How middle of nowhere you ask? How about this.....

No Internet access. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

No Twitter. No blogging. I might sneak looking at e-mails on my phone, but yeah - nothing.

I hope the shakes don't get too bad.

After some minor dithering, I've decided it will be for the best for me to hang up the Gone Fishin' sign on the blog for the next week. I don't "do" guest posts (it's my blog and yes I am that narcissistic), and honestly? I'm in the middle of a blogging slump. Which some of you have probably noticed. Which is shocking since I can babble nonsense with the best of 'em. Yeah, I think I just need a break. Get some reading done. Eat some turkey and punkin' pie. Recharge the ol' batteries. I figure after almost 8 years of blogging excellence (hardy har har), declaring a media blackout for the next 7-odd days won't be the end of the world.

So for those of you in the States - have a great holiday, and I hope you all survive the forced family togetherness. I'll be back into the swing of things sometime around the 29th!