Contrary to popular belief, I have not leapt from this mortal coil.

Well, I may have dropped off the face of this here blog-a-ma-jig for a while, but I got reasons, man!

For starters…school. I'm trying to keep my 4.0 GPA in this Masters program, but I got an A-minus in my last class, which brought me down to a 3.8. And with only four more classes left after my current one (Telecommunications Law and Regulations), I'm scheduled to get my degree somewhere near the end of the summer in 2008. Therefore, a large amount of my free time has been dedicated to group projects, research, lectures, seminars and all kinda scholastic-type endeavors therein. That includes trekking it down to the Decatur campus at least twice a week to talk to advisors and professors, straighten out financial aid, and basically make sure all my affairs are in order. Heaven forbid I have to go through that mad chase for signatures and shit like I did when I went to Morehouse (you HBCU grads know what I'm talking about).

Also, I got plans and stuff for the 2008 Black Weblog Awards…plans I really haven't been able to flesh out fully. Two things that will be definite for next year — and you can blog this if you like — are that the nomination and finalist voting period will be longer, and we will include prizes for next year. BWA talk has been dead since September, but I've been thinking about advertising, branding, programming, logo and design contests, and extending the Awards into an LLC or something. Again, these are all still in the planning phase, so nothing's set in stone yet. But when it is, you'll definitely find out. We're not dead yet.

And speaking of other things that ain't dead yet…there's the blogcast.

I had full intentions of starting back up on October 15 — six months from the last blogcast. But when I sat down at the computer and fired up Audacity and plugged in my mic…it wasn't working. And I had trashed my old mic when I "upgraded" to this new digital one, so I was out of it. I tried recording some stuff on my mp3 player, uploaded it to my computer, ran it through Levelator, and it sounded like pure shit. So no new blogcasts until I can get a new mic (which should be pretty soon). I have recommitted myself to a weekly show in 2008, and will be getting back on the horse and doing a few shows until then. After all, the next episode is #50…I can't leave without a 50th episode!

I also still haven't finished my new 101/1001.

On top of all this, I took on a new freelance writing gig, and I've got a few freelance design jobs I would really like to get a foothold on soon.

So as you can see…a brotha has been busy busy busy. And when I'm busy, the blog suffers, unfortunately. However, you can help me out a LOT by giving me some topics for discussion.

What do you think I should write about for some future posts? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

Thanks for hanging in there with me!