First off and most importantly: Thank you. All of you who’ve written, commented, called on the phone (hi, Kat!). I’ve read every single one of your notes with profound emotion. This is no exaggeration. Some of you close friends from real life, some of you people I’ve never heard of, all of you have made this experience a bit more bearable. The downside of leaving the job is that I don’t see people every day, and I don’t know what kind of state I’d be in without you — and Zeke definitely benefits from your support of his sniveling human. I’ll be getting back to each of you who’ve sent notes or left them. If you think your blog comments are throwing stones down a well, as I sometimes do: those stones splash big. I owe you. So do Zeke and Becky.
Secondly, and with far broader import: The John Edwards for President campaign has done something brilliant: they’ve hired Amanda Marcotte to wrangle their campaign blogs. As a result, she’s anticipating needing to cut back on her time spent writing for Pandagon, though thankfully not entirely. In order to take up the slack, she’s raided the Creek Running North regulars roster. Auguste, Ilyka Damen, Sheelzebub, and Roxanne Populi have been added to the author list over there, with Amanda and the wonderful Pam Spaulding. Also, for some reason Amanda has seen fit to give me the keys to the place too. I can use the being-kept-busy-while-at-home, I think.
