Stumble It!
I’m alive. Mm-hm, contrary to popular belief I am alive and well and have been alive and well for the last however-long-it’s-been-since-I-posted-last. As I intend to continue in this generally alive-and-well state, I think I’m giving up blogging. All my kneejerk self-analysis isn’t really very helpful. It’s so not-really-helpful it’s unhelpful. (As is excessive hyphenation, Suzanne.) I need to phase it out.
(It was all so perfect I couldn’t decide which line to take, but obviously I finally settled on one barely more apt than the rest…)
If I’m to be like John Cleese with Fawlty Towers I should quit while I’m ahead. I will never be like John Cleese in Fawlty Towers because a, I’m female, b, I have no moustache, and c, I passed the point where I was ahead a long time ago, but hey – I was having fun. And I’m still having fun, and it’d be kinda nice to have this online retreat for when real life gets a bit difficult, people-wise
(“Suzy, why do you hate me?”
“I don’t hate you.”
“But you look at me like you hate me.”
“No I don’t, you’re wonderful, you’re great, you’re my best friend almost sort of after Danny!”
“But you don’t talk to me!”
“No, you don’t talk to me!”
I swear these girls go out their way to misinterpret my expression as general hatred)
, but if I stay here I’ll have to keep posting, which I think would be foolish. I’d much rather just stick around for the company, but no one’s going to comment and talk to me if I don’t post anything for them to comment on (answering comments was probably the one of the highest highlights of this whole business). So, I mean, if anybody has anything they want to say, or if anyone wants to speak to me, or keep in touch, or whatever - whatever you crazy stalkers feel like doing – there’s my (alias’s) email address over to the left, and I guess I’ll keep logging in so I can follow WordPress blogs through the rather nifty WordPress-following things, so I’ll see comments (hah) and suchlike, and… uh, if I get round to it I might make that infamous hidden post of pictures and so on, but by then no one will be coming here any more so it’ll languish unread forever. So.
Yeah. I guess that’s it, then. This blog will be six months old on Thursday and that’s probably a good place to leave it. I heard that adults are generally embarrassed when they revisit teenage diaries and see their introspective, self-obsessed, mock-profound mumblings: I have posted my introspective, self-obsessed, mock-profound mumblings up for the world to see and I get the feeling I am going to regret this action so much when I’m older.
Ta-rah for now, then.
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Hey,
I’m a little sad to read this, but if blogging is no longer in your best interests then you’re definitely doing the right thing.
I hope that, if you read this in a few years’ time, you’re not embarrassed, but rather a) impressed at what an eloquent teenager you were, and b) proud of going so far.
Because you WILL go far.
If you ever need somewhere to write, or someone to talk to, or you feel it may help in some way, don’t feel self-conscious about returning to this blog. We understand why you’re leaving, and we’d understand if you chose to come back, too.
Goodbye, Suzy.
I hope things go well for you.
Laura.
Suzy: aw… thank you. This made my chest do that thing where it goes all soft and floppy inside… you know the one? Like feeling happy and sad together. Yeah. How’s that for eloquence?
Thanks.
Aw, I’m so sad to read this! But I guess if it’s not helpful and/or enjoyable for you then you should stop. But I echo Laura, if you want to come back then you should! I’ll miss you.
Suzy: oh, it’s very enjoyable! I love this blogging world and I’ve met some rather amazing people, which sounds so cheesy but hey. Cheese is one of my favourite foods.
I’d just rather not carry on looking for things to say when there aren’t any, plus I didn’t actually realise I can’t blag my way through A-Levels. Therefore, I need to work. 
Oh Suzy, Suzy. I will miss your blog, and your funny comments around the place, but I suppose if blogging has become generally unhelpful then it would be unhelpful for me to try to persuade you to stay. In the spirit of our emails I would say add this to a ssong, but the only one I have stuck in my head is things can only get better by d ream and i dont think that quite fits the bill
Hannah X
Suzy: (I’d capitalise all of this but it’s not polite to do so): I still intend to leave comments round the place! Whether they’re funny, OK, well, I can work on that.
I’m not going anywhere. I’m just not posting. Or at least, I don’t intend to. Generally, as soon as I’ve said something on here I’ve gone off and done the opposite, though. (I have If The Kids Are United in my head. Unite with me, Hannah!
)
You’ll be missed.
But I hope you’ll keep on reading blogs and leaving comments and I hope you’ll keep on writing, even if it’s something completely different, even if it’s about pirates, because you’re good, you know.
You’ve got my e-mail and my real name xx
Suzy: I’ve never written about pirates. Is this to be my equivalent of your murderous nuns and biblical porn?
Actually, I tore myself away from what I was writing to come answer these comments. With no posts to write, I can write way more. I’m feeling rather chuffed over that.
(I have your real name?)
If you’re sure. I’ll miss reading your blog, anyway.
My email (I’m terrible at taking the initiative when it comes to keeping in touch with people).
Take care of yourself.
PS la is right, it would be awesome if you wrote about pirates =D
Suzy: no one said you have to stop reading it, Amaxing Lexie. There’s almost six months of archives needing dusting round here! (On that topic, may I draw the world’s attention to my shiny new page up there? Made for just such a purpose?)
See, now I write one last post about pirates, which leads to one last post explaining why, which leads to…
*sigh*
Ooh, I totally agree that you should write about pirates! Or anything really, you could write about lots of different things. And if you still have to work too you could just write once a week… not that I want to sound like I’m wheedling or anything…
Suzy: I’ve never heard anybody wheedle outside from that scene in Harry Potter, where wossname, the rat man, is begging the Potter not to kill him. Heh.
I cannot post this and then get talked out of it. This was not in my plans.
Darn it.
No you’re not allowed to stop blogging. No I am not being selfish…am NOT….oh OK….go and live in the “Real” world
No seriously, I’ll miss you Suzy (Stranger on the internet who I have never met!!!) Shall I make that sound a little less frightening? I’ll miss your posts, they always made me smile! I’ll come and haunt your archives, rattling my keyboard and moving stuff about for you!
You know where I’ll be if you want to say hi, that’s unless a miracle occurs and I find a cure for hermitism….perhaps hermitoid cream?
Lola x
Suzy: anyone who reads blogs must be a bit of a weirdo in that case, then.
It took me a while to get what you meant by ‘moving things about’; I went, she wants to hack my account! And edit my posts! Wah! And then I got it. Yes please, I think DBAH needs a poltergeist! Urgently! It’ll keep people visiting – ‘what fresh havoc today, I wonder?’ 
Hey, everyone likes pirates! (For reasons unknown, in the last few years all birthday cards I have sent to friends and family have featured pirates. I bought my brother one last week and had to amend ‘Now you are 6′ to ‘Now you are 33′.)
But pirates or otherwise, I hope you’ll put some time aside each week to write something that isn’t school work.
And maybe the odd e-mail. (I’m sure I e-mailed you a guest post from my ‘real’ e-mail, ergo you know my full name. I’m not on MSN very often but if you ever fancy a chat e-mail me your handle and I’ll add you to my contacts.)
Your A-levels are important but remember to take some time out for you.
Ps. My nun is not murderous. (Although I foresee a corrupt cardinal and a naive pontiff in the future.)
Suzy: I write whenever I can. That’s my other big supposed-to-be-homework-time waster. So I’m hoping that by stopping one of the time wasters, I’ll fill its gap with work, not the other time waster… (I am so amazing at procrastinating that I end up being crap at deadlines.)
Yeah, when I wrote that I remembered the guest post email, and I went off and checked and I do know your proper email. OK, I’ll send you some very odd emails.
I love that last line, in the brackets. There’s something so weird about it it’s perfect.
If you’re not up for blogging but want the company, why don’t you make a forum?
Suzy: …because I’m a technological fool? Um, I don’t know.
Is it possible?
I hope we’ll still see each other around.
Cheers.
Suzy: ditto.
Yeah, easily. Tons of free web forums out there. invision are good.
Suzy: shall have a looky, then.
Adios and all that – although i agree, pirates would be a good last post – you could have a heroic ending then! Good luck anyways
Suzy: thanks.
Like, me battling the pirates and forcing them off the plank? Um… it sounds like it ought to be fun to write, but if I ever sat down to it, it’d turn out impossible…
Noooooo
I guess if it’s not good for you, then it’s good to give up, but you write amazingly well and I always liked your blog
xx
Suzy: oh, don’t make me blush.
Ach Suze
Don’t disappear too far lovely xx
Suzy: …says the girl who went Down Under. But I don’t intend to go anywhere. Honest.
no wait you can’t go now, I only just got here!
bah, late again.
Suzy: guten Tag. I found your blog too today, actually, and I clicked to it, but then the internet crashed so I haven’t actually seen it yet.
Well… my archives? They’re stunning. Obviously. 
And I’ve got a new guided tour to ‘em up top. And I don’t suppose you could think of a name for a forum, could you? 