SUPER MEGA LIFE-CHANGING ANNOUNCEMENT: I'll be relocating my primary blog to http://becauseitsdelicious.tumblr.com -- details below!
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In our Relationships unit of PSY 131: Social Psychology, we learned that in a breakup, the amount of distress that you face depends on who ends the relationship.
“Breakers generally experience the least stress, along with fewer negative physical symptoms (headaches, insomnia, etc.)
Breakees experience the highest amount of stress, as well as loneliness, depression, and have high levels of physical disorders
Mutual breakups were in between the two. So if you ever find yourself getting dumped, make sure you tell your partner (and yourself!) that it was mutual and you will experience less distress.”
This admittedly would’ve been extremely useful information a few years ago, but I am now choosing to not squander this sound advice.
Except this time, I’m having a mutual breakup with my Xanga.
It’s now a very real possibility that Xanga will be shutting down, and I’ll be honest — my Xanga is one of my oldest and dearest relationships. My heart has been located at xanga.com/jounouchilvr since November 24th, 2002. These pages archive my memories and my lifelong growth. It was a difficult decision for me to make, considering that Xanga's fundraising efforts have another month left in store. But, I've been following it for the last few weeks, and the outlook is unfortunately pessimistic on my side.
It’s funny that Xanga may be shutting down around the same time as my college graduation.
It’s like life wants me to grow up, in every spectrum of my life.
With that, I sadly find myself at a “mutual breakup” with Xanga — as Xanga may have to leave, I have to do the same, too.
If you still want to follow my blogs, I am tentatively relocating the story of my life to http://becauseitsdelicious.tumblr.com — previously, my poetry blog. Before that, my conversations with Phuc blog. And before that, my random quotes from The Office blog. But, other than Xanga, it’s the blog that I’ve had the longest, and seemed like an appropriate venue to relocate to.
Fortunately, Xanga has been allowing full blog archival, and my last eleven years of blogging aren’t lost, but are now tucked away in my hard drive. I’ll be sure to have lame awesome throwback posts where I can continue to share my old memories with you all, just like back in the day when Xanga was hot stuff.
With that, this entry will be the last blog post of jounouchilvr.xanga.com, and will also be the first new post-poetry blog post of becauseitsdelicious.tumblr.com.
I’ll miss you, Xanga.
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