I have been absent from a lot of things lately for a variety of reasons; I’ve been conspicuously MIA from MCCP (I’m there just kind of aloof) and my updates here at VV.com have been kind of sporadic lately and off-schedule. There’s been a few ongoing things in my life that have been on my back for some time now and very recently a lot of them reached their breaking point and became too overwhelming to properly deal with. I am not going to divulge the nitty gritty details of the events because they are personal and I do not feel comfortable sharing them publicly, but in short I am resigning my columnist position here at VV.com indefinitely, and until further notice I will no longer be writing 3 Years, 5 Months, & 2 Days in the Life of Dracophile. The column has not moved elsewhere and I have no plans to start anything with GatorAIDS.com right now. I need some time away from things so I am simply severing a few things that are beginning to lose their luster to me. I do not want writing to be a chore for me, and overusing it as a crutch will eventually turn it into that ala RFSHQ. Writing is an art that I cherish and hold close to me, and writing out of anger or misplaced emotion will only tarnish the art’s image in my mind, which is a mistake I have decided to not make a second time.

I apologize to my readers and fans of my column here, I really wanted to make it a lot longer than #23 and I personally was looking forward to putting together a “best of 2010″ summary but my article tally for this year is bottoming out at four. I am very appreciative of all of your support and love (and hate too I guess) and wish to extend a very warm thank you. I enjoyed my time here but I think it’s best for now if I let things lie as they are in my life.

See ya around, space cowboy. You’re gonna carry that weight with you.
- Dracophile