After the maintenance this weekend, and when I've confirmed the server is okay, I'm going to take a couple of weeks off Bluelight. I'm not really going anywhere, though I'd love to go up to Cairns if I had enough leave and work wasn't about to head into overdrive again.
Instead, the point of this is just to unplug from here and enjoy my weeknights and weekends to myself. I might even completely get off the computer and read a book.
I also hope the time away sets the example to some of the more enthusiastic moderators here about the necessity of time away and getting their perspective back. Being caught up in the day-to-day drama of this place gets incredibly tiring after a while, so much so that I'm looking forward to this break as much as if I were going overseas for two weeks... which seems a little sad.
Not long ago I sat down and worked out that based on hours I spend on BL, calculated at the hourly rate my services would be contracted out for in the corporate world, I would be doing about $40k per year of "work" here. I could almost find that funny if it wasn't myself I was writing about.
While I'm away I also want to spend some time hanging out here, studying the song lyrics of Arcade Fire.
Win Butler & Regine Chassagne's voices have been a constant in my life over the last twelve months.
I don't really care if they're indie, or emo or crap according to others. When they last toured Australia, I didn't really "get" them when many others did, and I didn't really like them... and then one day I just did. After which point, every one of their songs not only sounded incredibly beautiful but found resonance in my own experiences at the time, and still do.
"Ocean of Noise" off Neon Bible is probably my favourite song of theirs. It is one song that never fails to evoke an emotional response, especially from about the middle through the string section to the end. There were times in February this year I was on so much codeine I probably wouldn't have noticed if my arm was cut off but this song would always be able to get to me... would cut right through me.
There's a blog entry I want to make in two weeks so I may pop in to do that but otherwise you won't see me around much during my "holiday".
Instead, the point of this is just to unplug from here and enjoy my weeknights and weekends to myself. I might even completely get off the computer and read a book.
I also hope the time away sets the example to some of the more enthusiastic moderators here about the necessity of time away and getting their perspective back. Being caught up in the day-to-day drama of this place gets incredibly tiring after a while, so much so that I'm looking forward to this break as much as if I were going overseas for two weeks... which seems a little sad.Not long ago I sat down and worked out that based on hours I spend on BL, calculated at the hourly rate my services would be contracted out for in the corporate world, I would be doing about $40k per year of "work" here. I could almost find that funny if it wasn't myself I was writing about.
While I'm away I also want to spend some time hanging out here, studying the song lyrics of Arcade Fire.
Win Butler & Regine Chassagne's voices have been a constant in my life over the last twelve months.I don't really care if they're indie, or emo or crap according to others. When they last toured Australia, I didn't really "get" them when many others did, and I didn't really like them... and then one day I just did. After which point, every one of their songs not only sounded incredibly beautiful but found resonance in my own experiences at the time, and still do.
"Ocean of Noise" off Neon Bible is probably my favourite song of theirs. It is one song that never fails to evoke an emotional response, especially from about the middle through the string section to the end. There were times in February this year I was on so much codeine I probably wouldn't have noticed if my arm was cut off but this song would always be able to get to me... would cut right through me.
There's a blog entry I want to make in two weeks so I may pop in to do that but otherwise you won't see me around much during my "holiday".
Arcade Fire. I can and have spent hours on that site too. I'll just keep looking up different songs and have "a-ha!" moments. It's fun to see how different people interpret lyrics. 
