My mood this past month has been fluctuating between Grumpy and Sleepy - having made the calamitous mistake of taking two, six week classes at the same time. I then proceeded to procrastinate myself into a deep dark hole, as usual. Near the end of the semester, with four papers due by as many days, I came to the realization that I couldn't pull the all-nighters that had sustained me through my undergraduate years. My body actually shut down, whether the papers were done or not! Anyway...that explains my Sleepy self... Grumpy came out when it dawned on me that there was no way to justify spending any time in Second Life at all while this situation was going on. Because of this, SL6B seemed to have come and gone with almost no fanfare at all, or at least not enough to penetrate the little cocoon I had built for myself. Admittedly, SL’s 6^th birthday party was extremely low on my totem pole of priorities. Nonetheless…was it just my imagination, or was the celebration a tad more muted than in previous years? There are some very nice stats available (courtesy of Daniel Voyager) for this year's festivities - but alas, no comparable figures for previous years to test my hypothesis. Of course,  this blog post at New World Notes has me wondering if maybe it wasn't just me and my cocoon after all. I did get my friend Alexander to take some pictures of his travels through the sims, and there were some incredible builds.. so.I'm still sorry that I missed out this year. 

Exam week finally came and went, and surprisingly I did not get kicked out for taking the fine art of procrastination to dangerous new levels.(Lucky me, did I learn my lesson? I think not - I'm back for more in the fall). Just as I thought things were looking up, however, I was hit with the terrible news that my favorite teen island, Eye4You, was closing due to lack of funding. Okay, so it's the ONLY teen island that actually allows me to set foot in it, but that's beside the point, and makes it just that much worse. This was the first time that the economics of the real world had encroached on me personally in Second Life...I had just assumed that the island would go on forever.  Then came the icing on the cake...the countdown began as every corner of Eye4You started sprouting giant digital clocks counting down the minutes to D-Day, July 12, 2009, courtesy of the teens.  I was starting to feel more like Puddleglum than Grumpy by this time.

However, as the estate managers and I got together to plan the final party, we took ourselves down memory lane, looking at pictures of all the wonderful things that the teens and approved adults had created over the years...many of them before my time.  It made me realize that although the island may cease to exist, the memories will not, and the pictures and videos and blog posts...all of them are there, standing testament to the success that was Eye4You. 

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