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This blog is dead.

Once again, I have failed at keeping resolutions -- which means, obviously, that I should no longer make them. After all, don't we all know by this time in our lives that any attempt to live by such clear-cut imperatives will inevitably fail?

I chalk my silence up to better weather and more work hours. Oh, and perhaps to the reintroduction of forward momentum into my life: I'm going to graduate school. Finally. I leave for Texas in less than two months to begin an MA/PhD in English at UT-Austin. (This is probably not news to anyone who reads this, as all my family and friends have known this information for at least two months.)

And so, with all the uncertainty of the past several months trumped by the resurgence of a promising future, I hereby declare this blog deceased, if only to assuage myself with the idea of closure. This has been an unexpectedly remarkable year, with many people, moments and places I dread leaving behind. But Michigan is nowhere near the path I have chosen for myself. Not at the moment, anyway.

I'm thinking of starting an entirely different kind of blog when I get to Austin, if I have time. (Which I probably won't.) It would be musically and culturally inclined. If it comes to fruition, I will link to it. But until then, adieu.