…It Ends

Hey Guys!

How long has it been since I wrote something here? Must have been last week or something right? *checks*…Oh.

Alright here’s the thing. Obviously even by the end there it was becoming clear that JLH was something I wasn’t, well, completely invested in anymore. Things happen. People change. People start blogs in college and then at some point it gets away from them.

There are things I could say I guess. Believe me, there was a time when I loved writing here (and times that I was uninspired and hated writing or just was feeling miserable and needed to put something out in cyberspace that people might grant me some modest sense of legitimacy as a human). But I’m just not that person anymore, I’m more the kind who simply just up and leaves a blog because at the time I figured maybe I’d come back to it and then I didn’t. Of course I still am not above whining to people online in the hopes that they’ll give me the online version of a hug and pat on the back, I just don’t do it here anymore.

I also got more involved in writing other stuff, like books and music and snappy twitter jokes and the like. It turns out when I’m obsessed with every last detail of those things, and, you know, life, it can subtract mental resources that could be applied to making fun of people’s facebook pictures or christian rock or what have you.

Not to discount all that time on OD. I do look back fondly to the days I wrote here. In many ways I think it laid the stage for all the other writing I do now. It was a place to cut my teeth, sharpen my sensibilities, and of course interact with all you lovely people.

But Justlikeheathen isn’t really me anymore. I’m much closer to being just plain old Michael Gormly.

Still, I don’t want to sign off without saying goodbye, so this it (unless you want to follow any of those previous handles, or just look me up on facebook where I have that name I just gave away). Also, my first entry all those years ago was called ‘It Begins…’, so it just made sense to eventually do one that resolves those horrible ellipses.

Of course I’ll probably just leave this up here. There probably will come a time when I want to look back on it, or when the Criminal Psychologists do. So to anyone who for whatever reason still has thing thing bookmarked, thanks. Thanks for all of it. It was lovely. Now go outside you, go live and love and be a crazy, fucked up, beautiful human being. This is JLH, signing off.