Blog-o-Sphere Vacation

Starting this week, the second week of May 2011, I will be taking a vacation from my blog. I started writing it in January 2008 as part of the “Introduction to Literary Theory” class that I was teaching then. All the students in the class had to keep blogs too, and I enjoyed reading them as well as my blogroll comrades (listed right.) Since then, it morphed into something that related to other classes I taught and to other various topics related to my teaching, scholarship, and political activism (especially my work with the Oromo community.) In the forty months since its beginning, I have written 126 posts, averaging about three per month. And according to the data counter, the blog has been averaging a little more than 2,000 views per month for the past few months (though I suspect most of those views are insubstantial.) But it’s time for a break.

My blog’s vacation will end in January 2012 when I begin teaching the “Introduction to Literary Theory” class again. I am grateful to all of my friends, family, colleagues, students, former students, and interested strangers who have read my blog from time to time over the years. I am grateful to your generosity and curiosity, and I appreciate you perhaps more than you realize. And I sincerely hope you will come back to check out my new posts next year when I return to the blog-0-sphere and start blogging again.

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