★ …taking a break.

Last year was pretty interesting. I have a few blog posts that I’d like to post maybe 2-3 years from now that explain how odd 2009 was for me and how much odder 2010 began before leveling out. It wasn’t bad just interesting but not anything I’m ready to share yet.

Following Blogworld last year, I fasted for a few days. You can read the blog post here. After fasting, I went home for Thanksgiving to visit family and came back with some new direction. I started the first of 2010 by deleting my FourSquare account and then deciding to stop tweeting entirely which I think that lasted for just under 2 months. You can see those posts here and here. It took until around March for me to fully jump back into Twitter & Social Media.

I think it’s always after blogworld because I see a lot of what we’re doing as a community and what we’re doing as a species and for one week in Las Vegas everything is so hyper-connected that I get totally overloaded and despite the fact that I still use Twitter all day at work, my personal account just feels bloated with random-ness, mentions, photos, geo-tweets and TMI. I wrote a post talking about this after the 140 Characters Conference last year.

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I’m taking 2 weeks off but maybe more. This week, it’s time to go to bed early, work long hours at work, hit the gym and prepare for another full week of travel that starts on Friday. I’m in Amsterdam Saturday through next Friday and then, I’m driving down to Washington DC with my friend Lee to attend the John Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity followed by Halloween festivities on the 31st and right back to work the next day.

Given the mix between work, needing some personal space and not wanting to broadcast while jumping in and out of airports and taxis, I think I’ll just take a break.

The great thing about breaks is that my blog and Flickr stream will grow more active. I still have something to say and blog posts are far more easier to curate and control than what goes to Twitter. My Flickr stream will be full of photos taken on my adventures. Trust me, these are going to be some exciting weeks abroad. The trees are fully orange and red here in New Hampshire and it’s dipping below freezing each night. Amsterdam will be full of new architecture, people and adventures and it’ll be my first visit to Washington DC and you can be sure I’ll be snapping photos there and chronicling the excitement of my first rally at The National Mall.

This time around, the break is due to an avid excitement for what life has in store and not a result of being overwhelmed or consumed by my personal media churn. I’d rather curate and publish chapters than fill you all in moment to moment.

Thank you.