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If we were having coffee, I’d tell you I’m having social media withdrawal, but I had a stellar week offline. I have this job I’ve been struggling to get a handle on since October — almost from the moment Diana, Jeremy, and I threw in together and started the blogs. I got a handle on it this week. I shone, and I put myself in a position to keep shining.
The price of that was neglecting my online life since Tuesday, and it’s looking like I have another week of the same. The price is totally worth it, but I am a little concerned that a lot of the people who have been following me for most of a year will think I am withdrawing. I am not withdrawing, I’m just busy helping people get through school.
If we were having coffee, I’d tell you I had a birthday this week, and it’s one of those lackluster numbers that doesn’t mean much. Not like turning 30, or 23, or 50. I survived another year, and my family gave me a whole new wardrobe with work in mind,because I really don’t spend money on myself these days. It was a sweet, happy day.
I’d tell you I am not doing the linkup thing this week, but you are welcome to drop a link to your coffee post on this thread.
I’d tell you I don’t know where these blogs are going, and even though my social media strategy is pretty good, it requires time and attention I don’t have at the moment. I really need an administrative assistant or a surrogate to maintain my presence at this point. And that’s all I’d say.
Except to ask you what you’ve been up to lately.
Just Gene'O 
Finding your groove at work is important — glad it’s going well!
I have a feeling when our semester starts up (beginning of October) my own social-media life will slow down considerably — for my part I expect the blogs/people that I follow to have ebbs-and-flows. Especially those who work within academia in some way!
My coffee-conversation today: http://wp.me/p1Dt2A-t7
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I’d tell you I’m trying to refocus on my own online interactions while juggling everything else.
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I missed your b-day so a late Happy Birthday.
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Blogging has to take a backseat sometimes while we tend to more important things in life: work, kids, ourselves… I have found this to be one of the beauties and advantages of blogging as well, the possibility of putting our work on hold for a bit, unlike most other things. The hard part is trying not to worry about it I suppose!
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If we were having coffee, I’d tell you that it sounds like you’re in a pretty happy place right now. Glad to hear you are “shining” and hope that light keeps on burning brightly!
I’d tell you that birthdays are very important occasions – if only to remind us that we survived another journey around the sun – complete with all its dangers and drama. For that we should celebrate and I’m glad yours was a happy one.
I’d tell you that I’ve been feeling particularly lazy the past couple of days which is usually a harbinger that change is coming. Happy September!!
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Happy belated birthday! I haven’t had much time for blogging and social media either. My day job is taking up more and more of my free time and I fear this week will be worse. The price isn’t worth it for me, I like writing more than I like my job, glad it is for you though. Sometimes blogging just has to wait while we handle real life. Good luck to you 🙂
Here’s my post: http://zenandpi.com/2014/08/31/if-we-were-having-coffee-2/
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Glad work is going well!
(And I just turned 23, and it wasn’t all that big of a milestone either, lol.)
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