The Circle of Life

[cue the Elton John song]...

I'm very sad because one of my favorite blogs, The Daily Dump, is shutting down. I'm in shock. It's kinda like when you're a kid and you ride your bike every week to the neighborhood candy store, and then one day you ride up and see a big fat "CLOSED" sign and all the windows are dark and the merchandise is cleared out. Reading the Dump was quite literally a highlight of my day. I wish Dan well in his next adventures.

But life is, among other things, a series of opening and closing doors, no? It's a give-and-take, a yin-and-yang. I have a friend getting screwed over by her job, while another is starting an exciting new one; one friend struggling through the first few days of school while another is close to finishing his PhD; friends living the dream of being ex-pats in Europe, while another is stuck in a place he doesn't want to be.

Anyway, the point is that everything is cyclicle including the blogosphere. The Daily Dump might be closing down, but I'm thrilled that my friend Katie, my Wingman extraordinaire*, is jumping from MSN Spaces to carve out her own little piece of the Blogger universe. She's still getting her site up-to-speed, but to all of my blogging friends (all 6 of you), please stop by and say hello. She is and is going to be really awesome.

(And hopefully my friend Darci who is also awesome won't be far behind in making the switch from Spaces to Blogger either.)

* After I excitedly told her that I'd met Jessica Alba in a shoe store on Carnaby, Katie had only one question: "What shoes did you buy?" Only Katie [or maybe JB] would be more concerned about the shoes than my brush with celebrity.