There is nothing personal involved, you are all wonderful people, the best really. You are so good that goodness doesn't even have an entry in the dictionary until they can find a picture of you unencumbered by copyright. Like myself, they would not want violate your copyright because you are so cool. Perhaps if you were an evil corporate empire, then it would not matter if they violated your copyright because information wants to be free (not to mention wanting to be anthropomorphized in the first place).
No, it's just that I have personal issues at the moment that drag me away from my FISA letter writing activism. My cat has died, I sometimes find blood in my stool, the dog is on antidepressants and my children are literally on fire as I speak. Suffice it to say I have my hands full.
I'd like to write a letter to my senator about the FISA bill, and was just about to, but need I bother? I think if I tell my best friend my feelings that the powers that be will hear my opinion efficiently enough. My friend, by the way, has a hideous boil growing into an extra head on her shoulder, she keeps me up all night talking about it but that's what friends are for, don't you think? Anyway... if they hear my opinions in context during a long distance call to an enemy nation (she lives in France) they might find them believable, but if I write a letter they'll probably never even notice anyway.
As I was telling my sister (who has just contracted HPV and has moved into my house with her seven ferrets, three of which are rabid, including the one my toddler won't stop playing with), sometimes life takes the front seat on this highway we call life. Sometimes you have to get behind the wheel and drive even when your tires are all flat. You have to buck up and buckle down. You have to boil the water, you have to tear the sheets, you have to hide in the basement or sleep all day, smoking and drinking cheap American beer bought by the case.
I just can't forsee taking the time to stay informed at this point from now until the indefinite future, so I think it best to tell all my good acquaintances here exactly what I'm doing. I wouldn't want you to think I'm leaving because of you or because I don't value all the important things I could get done here, that I learn here--- I want you to know it's my syphilitic gerbil (don't ask) plus my house plants are dying of fern-pneumonia.
So please take care, and keep giving them hell! I know I can count on you!!!
Update: for those that speak for the thneeds, I thank you doubly!