In Which I Introduce Some Guest Bloggers
Friday, September 7, 2007 I am swamped with work at the moment. What with having just returned to work full time after short term leave following a hysterectomy and taking an editing contract on the side that has to be completed tout de suite, I knew that I would need some help with this website. I like being in absolute control of this place, but I knew that if I did not relinquish some of that control to guest bloggers over the next couple of weeks, I was going to crash. Hell, I am already crashing a bit. I am writing from bed where I am surrounded by a pitcher of water, extra blankets, bottles of cold medications, and my cat/hot water bottle.
I gathered up my courage and asked the following accomplished bloggers to lend me a hand for the next while. I e-mailed eleven individuals, and then sat back and held my breath. Would they do it? Was I crossing some imaginary line of blogger caste by making that request of some of them? Did they all like me enough? Luckily, they all e-mailed me back in short order, and with each positive response, the pit of dorkitude into which I had cast myself shrunk smaller and smaller. Now I am merely sitting in a pothole of dorkitude, and it's a fairly comfortable one at that.
You may or may not find the following generous souls writing around these parts over the next while in order to afford my fingers some respite: Abigail of Abigail's Road To Nowhere, Cenobyte of Centre Of The Universe, Neil of Citizen Of The Month, Gasoline Hobo of Gasoline Hobo, the Palinode of In Palinode's Palace, Leah of Leahpeah, Deron of Lectures On Everything, Rekabek of Rekabek.com, Savia of Saviabella, and That Girl of That Girl Who Blogs Stuff. Please welcome them warmly, which I know you will do, because you are lovely folks and they deserve it.
I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do while I take a shot at meeting deadlines while battling this veritable snot fountain that I have attached to my face.
Reader Comments (7)
The Palinode makes you e-mail all official requests to him? Boy, deciding when to have sex must get tricky.
Mmmm...snot fountain.
OK, so, you know that I revere every word that you write - so, understand that this question is coming from a place of support, not sniping, but...
Why do you think you *need* to corral some guest bloggers, if you have to stop posting for a while?
Do you think we'll run away, never to return, if there's no new content for a few days / weeks? Do you *really* think we're that shallow?
We live in an age of RSS feeds and aggregators. Whether it is an hour, a week, a month or a year before your next post, I'll see it the next time I fire up my aggregator after you post it.
You know that I rever the Palinode's writing, too - but, to read it, I can go to his blog. It's only my opinion, of course, but I think you're making a HUGE rod for your own back if you think the people who read you here don't recognise that all of us - *all* of us (and yes, schmutzie, that includes you) - need to reprioritise occasionally, even if only temporarily.
Be kind to yourself, m'kay?
Koan, I didn't do this out of a sense of need, no! The reason I chose to go the guest blogger route was because there are some pretty great writers and wits out there that I thought I could turn this space over to. You know, throw greater attention their way, whether they be small fish or giant squid.
I know that all my regular readers would return as soon their feed readers told them I was back, but why not have a little variety hour instead?
And, by the way, you flatter me. Thank you.
What about the small squid, eh? What about us?!
I'm sensing that I really offended you with my comment - for which, I am exceedingly sorry. My only defence (if such it is) is that I was guilty of reading your words, and taking them at face value. You said, in the original post:
> I knew that if I did not relinquish some of that control to guest bloggers over the next couple of weeks, I was going to crash
*That's* what alarmed me. If your post had said, as you made clar in your reply to my comment:
> The reason I chose to go the guest blogger route was because there are some pretty great writers and wits out there that I thought I could turn this space over to. You know, throw greater attention their way, whether they be small fish or giant squid
... then I would have smiled, and thought "damn, but schmutzie continues to show what a mighty fine person looks like - despite the cat-squozing".
I think you're already one of the most generous out-linkers I've seen - you've mentioned all of those guest-bloggers repeatedly, over time, and never fail to link out to them. So, I'm sorry if I didn't detect your sub-text - sorry that, in taking your original words at face value, I misinterpreted your intent.
Just sorry, actually. If I still had a hairshirt (I don't, I threw that suckah out months ago) it would, by now, be draping my torso.
And, yes, what about the small squid?
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