letter of resignation

fellow perfect duluth day bloggers:

my time as one of you must end.

i have only abstract reasons: melancholy admiration for the ephemeral; constant desire to change perspective; discomfort toward feeling like i've joined something. i'm not a joiner.

in high school, i quit basketball. in college, i quit football. i've quit a bunch of relationships. i quit the duluth rowing club. i've quit a bunch of perfectly good jobs. in 2002, i quit the clayton jackson mcghie memorial committee. all because i wanted to un-join.

i enjoy un-joining.

for a while, your lives are going to feel empty without me; that's natural. many of you will probably experience these stages of grief:

1. denial, shock, and isolation
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptance

but you'll have each other to lean on as you work through the pain, and i'm sure the good folks at blogger have some sort of counseling program set up for people just like you.

(a few of you will experience a monochromatic hum of indifference--at least, that's what it'll feel like; it will actually be detachment pain so intense that your mind teases you into thinking you don't give a rat's ass. be thankful for such mental processes. our minds truly are amazing.)

cherish the good times. when it really hurts, visit the pdd archives. comb through old posts and laugh--or, maybe, just quietly cry--at the pretentious, stupid, and flat-out unintelligible bullshit for which you'll remember me fondly.

be thankful for the time we had, for it is better to have blogged and lost, than to never have blogged at all.

my scary-transvestite mug may not appear in the lefthand nav bar anymore, but i'll always be around.

i'll be in your hearts, and maybe in your hard drives. i'll be in the stars or the aurora borealis on a clear night. i'll be the wind beneath the wings of the proud bald eagle, as he soars over this great land of ours, protecting us from terrorism, symbolizing america's generosity and altruism, and supporting the troops. and the eagle also stands for freedom, because we're all free and we have the freedom to be whoever we want and that's what we're over there fighting for, and that's why we need to be patriots and pray for the president. oh, and he stands for our powerful nation, too. and mcdonald's and ford trucks and other good stuff like that. all the good stuff.

and they can never take that away from us.