Well, I've been doing this admin thing at Weasyl for about 4 years now, but unfortunately the time has come for me to resign and start acting like a normal user of the site.

Fact is, I'm in the last year of graduate school, and so I need to both work hard to finish up my thesis on time, get prepped to defend it, and apply for postdoc positions (the latter of which start being posted in September). Given that, even though admin-ing on Weasyl has been a lot of fun, I need to let it go and focus on getting ready for the rest of my life, in so many words.

In all honesty, I probably held on to my admin position a little too long. It's always a bit hard to let go of one's rituals; in this case, logging on to the staff IRC channels almost every night to work through the list of open tickets and shoot the shit with the rest of the staff members, having weekly staff meetings on Saturday mornings, and so on and so forth. I really liked working with everyone here, so I kind of didn't want to give it up.

But in the end, you've got to prioritize, and in my case it's a no-brainer. Obviously earning my PhD and finding a job is number one. So even though it makes me sad, this was really the only course of action I could take.

Regardless, I'll still be using Weasyl to upload art (and maybe writing again, eventually), so everyone will still be seeing me around here.