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I just totally walked into the mens’ restroom.

To which magazines do you subscribe?

If I had any idea that my farewell post would be quoted in Forbes magazine, I would have taken more time with it. I couldn’t have written it not in a state of emotional duress, but it could’ve used some editing.

Sooo, I quit my job today. I just tried to go in and see if any comments at the work blog needed to be pulled out of Akismet purgatory, only to discover the lock has been changed. To be expected, I guess, but still such a weird feeling to be an outsider to a site I ran for more than two years. Anyway, these links are more for me than you, but here’s some reaction to my resignation today:

• Unbelievable. Pinch me so I can wake up now, please.
• Please don’t leave
• great 8: blah blah shauna blah
• WKRN About to Lose Out
• Brittney Gilbert scalped by Lefty nutroots
• I’d Love to Write About Something, But…
• Nashville Stops Talking
• Nashville Is…Speechless
• An Example of Blinded Bigotry
• A Sad Day for Nashville
• Respect for the Living
• WKRN blogger quits, cites antagonism from community
• There Is Really No Way To Title This
• Brittney Hangs Up Her Keyboard
• Liberal Blogger Attacks Liberal Blogger-Racist Right-Wing Blogger Wins
• Nashville’s first pro-blogger resigns
• There is a breaking point
• Eating their own
• Lost a good one
• NiT-Brittney=?
• There are no words.
• And a cry of "oh crap" is heard throughout the Nashville blogging community…
• Sad news in Nashville
• What a Clusterfuck of Unbelievable Bullshit
• Bad Day at WKRN
• Not a Great Day
• Instapundit
• Heh
• Goodbye Brittney
• Witchhunt
• Bad Day for Tennessee Bloggers
• Goodbye for now, Brittney
• Breaking: Brittney Gilbert is leaving Nashville is Talking
• Another resignation at WKRN
• Nashville is Silent
• Farewell Brittney…
• Thanks to Brittney, a better place to type
• Maybe She’ll Change Her Mind?
• I Frickin’ Knew My Thumbs Hurt for a Reason
• O Captain, My Captain
• Brittney Gilbert
• Mean People Suck
• Some Curly’s Birthday This Turned Out To Be
• Bye, Bye Brittney…Best of Luck
• Dear WKRN
• Brittney, the Right-Wing Racist Southerner
• Popular Nashville Blogger says she’s turning in her keyboard
• OMGWTFJOBLESS
• The True Front of Progressivism, Redux
• Leftists Eat One of their Own…Brittney Falls to Idiot Moonbat
• Tough day for a great blogger…
• The Blogosphere Encapsulated
• Nashville Is Muted
• Hurl
• I Hate Niggers With All My Heart (Should I even link to this without comment?! The horror.)
• brick for brit…
• These Boobs Are Made for Walking
• Looking Ahead and Behind
• Nashville Was Talking
• Blogger leaves WKRN in wake of racial slur controversy
• Nashville TV Station Blogger Calls It Quits
• Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
• If This Is Thursday, I Must Eat A Ladybug
• The Day Idealism Died
• Sick of the Excrement
• Huge Loss for Nashville
• Operation: Collateral Damage
• Brittney’s Only Mistake
• Nashville Is Talking Massacre: A Round-Up
• I’m Saddened by Brittney Gilbert’s Resignation from NIT
• love letter to Kat and Brittney
• A Sad Day at ‘Nashville Is Talking’
• Quote of the Day (on Brittney Gilbert)
• WKRN Blogger Quits
• The Nashville is Talking Dustup
• Exit
  

P.S. I’ve gotten a ton of really nice emails today, many that I haven’t opened yet. I promise to write you all back very soon, since I have some free time. However, my favorite one so far has been from a PR person who said, basically, "Sorry you stepped down, but here’s my press release anyway." Hooboy, it takes all kinds.

P.P.S. S&21 is about to get a lot more kick ass!

At the end of this piece I quote someone who says of the buyout of the Nashville Predators by Jim Bastillie, "This is the biggest scam pulled on Nashville by a Canadian since Shania Twain’s career."* When I finished up I looked at the guy running prompter, and I said, "What did you think about that one?" He said, "That should raise a few eyebrows." I immediately turned to my left and heard the camera guy say into his headset, "Yep, that’s what she said."

*Approved by the managing editor, thankyouverymuch.

There is an element of my job that makes me feel very lonely. Like I’m the teacher or the bartender or the camp counselor. There is a distance between me and everyone else just by virtue of the position. I often feel like I’m on the outside looking in.

I feel like I’m constantly being judged, and I guess I am. I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to finding scalding criticisms of my work in various coves of the internet. Or the letters with threats of calls to management.

I’m tired of reading these people’s opinions. No offense to them, they constantly surprise me with their wit and insight, but boy, am I burned out. This group of writing is all I read anymore by and large. I come home thoroughly drained. Hell, I’m tired of my own opinion. I don’t care what I care about anymore! I just want to read the paper again without having to form a bulletproof opinion on the issue at hand. I’d like to be able to write about my life, but it has sort of evaporated. Every single person I know knows about this blog. Every one.  And if they don’t they will soon enough. Can you say that about your own weblog?

I miss flying under the radar. It was therapeutic for me to write about my life, my troubles, my mishaps here. I don’t feel like I can do that anymore. I mean, in reality, I shouldn’t be writing this.

Obviously, I’m burned out. Oh, and I feel like a total asshole complaining about the blog job, just so you know. It’s like when Cameron Diaz bemoans being too pretty. Makes you want to slap her, but that’s the other part of my problem. I feel like no one understands. Who else does what I do? No one, really. Not in the same capacity. Just another reason why I feel lonely.

I need a vacation. Good news is I’ve got one coming soon.

I really dislike coming in to work to some man’s stank leather mandals on my desk. In fact, I think I might hate it.

Ignore the part where I obviously don’t know how to read.

And I have more to give away.