I get a lot of phone calls saying “Ivo, Ivo! Why have you not been posting in The Great Ivo Blog? When is the new post coming out? I love your posts so much and I really miss them!” Yes, I miss working on this blog as well, but unfortunately for all of you, dear readers, I have a very busy life.
Here are the reasons I have not posted these past two weeks, ever since publishing the debut post: Quiz: How well do you know Ivo? If you haven’t done it yet, you should do it.
Reason 1: I was studying
In case you don’t know, I go to university. There, I study Gender Studies and Astrology. Also maybe I’m lying and it’s something related to computers, including lots of math which gives me a headache. Unlike all of you, I have no free time at all — and so by internet standards, I have no life. I am what they call in German a, quote, “Streber“. I guess that translates to try-hard.
Because I must spend so much time staring at exercises I barely understand, by the end of the day I just don’t really feel like I have any ideas to share with my loyal fanbase in this blog.
Reason 2: I was gaming
This weekend I felt like resting from endless torment. Therefore, I decided to boot a very cool video game I haven’t played in years: Read Dead Redemption 2. It is so fun. My favorite activity in the game is to leave my wife, child, dog, and useless parasite bum living with us, then to ride to the ass-end of nowhere and play poker for two days straight. This time, I even robbed a train and killed a dozen of lawmen in cold blood, got a bounty of hundred fifty US-dollars, then walked up to the town sheriff in the hopes he recognized me. He didn’t. So I started bothering him and got arrested for disturbing the peace, then payed a hundred-thirty dollar fine.
Reason 3: I was making a new Bluesky account
Did you know that the social media platform X, also known as Twitter in the days of yore, sucks total butt? Not only do I somewhat personally despise Elon Musk, but his platform is full of Nazis and pedophiles. After hearing about this new alternative called Bluesky, I decided to make an account. So far I’m followed by two random people — one of them a rapper from Detroit. Go follow me there. I will post no more often than I post in this amazing blog.
Reason 4: I was writing other stuff
It should be more than obvious by now that I enjoy writing. Here is what I’ve been doing instead of posting blog posts.
Reason 4.1: I was writing a book
Book reveal! Yes, indeed, quite so! There’s a novel I’ve been writing since June of this year. It’s super awesome, but after getting some feedback from a fellow beta reader regarding the first third of the story, I realized it still has got ways to go, even though it’s been brewing in my mind for more than three years now.
Still, this month of November was National Novel Writing Month, so I’ve been meeting with the Swiss NaNoWriMo community here in Zurich to do write-ins every Saturday. With my Saturdays fully booked (ha-ha, get it? ‘Cause I’m writing a book… No? Whatever…), I just had no time to write new blog posts.
Reason 4.2: I was writing for my school’s magazine
My friends say I’m studying the wrong course, and that I should have gone to fine arts instead. I disagree. Artists are either rich (that’s 1% of them), or they starve to death (the 99%), but I suppose that applies to life in general. I would be the ninety-nine percenter.
That’s why I provide free labor as a writer for my university’s magazine — at least one of them. The magazine is called Polykum, if you’re interested. Go look it up. Don’t worry, only half of the text is in German, and all my writings are in English. I’m not posting links here because I don’t want to.
Reason 4.3: I was writing a new blog post
When the first few hundred fanmail letters came in, I settled on an epic new topic for the next post. However, this one shall be extremely long — an essay, if it may so be considered. It will take two more years until it’s done, so that’s why I want to publish this one post first — to assure you everything is alright.
Reason 5: I was buying NFTs
Now I have a picture of a funny monke. Also, only I can own it because I say so and that’s the law.
Okay that’s the post goodbye.
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