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I'm sorry you won't get to see the Christmas card I made for you guys at the Stranger!
Best of luck with whatever comes next, but you will be missed.
Have fun in your new life, Cienna. You were awesome here, and will no doubt be awesome wherever you go.
bookworm (aka Marc M)
Not that you need it, but, good luck! Even your questionable ideas failed to obscure your obvious talents, so I'm sure your future is bright.
Good luck with whatever you're moving on to.
*sniff*
GET BACK HERE YOUNG LADY WE'RE NOT DONE WITH YOU YET.
How can you do this to us? It's just wrong. Come over here so I can kick your bottom for even thinking about leaving us. Dammit!
If you change your mind I will give you some candy!
Seriously, Cienna, you're terrific and as Jen says we have already started to miss you.
Wait, Cienna who? (Have I covered all the stages of grief yet?)
Leave like somebody is chasing you, don't look back. If you drop something running away, leave it, unless it's money or keys to your escape to the future.
Thanks, now go.
Also, downer time - if The Stranger is hiring a new replacement writer, please consider diversity as your primary objective to keep your relevance in Seattle. I hope your interview process looks like this: http://jezebel.com/snl-held-another-secr…
Goddam. First Lindy, then Megan, now Ciennnnnaaaaa ?!?!? I DON'T FUCKIN THINK SO, MISSY!!
Shit sticks on toast. Say it ain't so, Joe! Aw fuckity fuck. Oh congratulations or whathefuckever.
sulk sulk sulk
I know, I know - when it's time to go, it's time to go. You just BETTER be getting to work on that NOVEL you didn't promise us you'd write - you know the one, starring various bits of your wacky family, through your own personal skewed-n-lovely lens?? Yeah, you right (write).
sniff
Good luck, Cienna M - She's a color and a city, and... she's gone. BUT SHE'LL BE AROUND. Thank you for all your work, I've enjoyed everything I've read by you, and I'll be looking for more in the future.
Oh yeah - I'll be looking. :-)
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There- my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous, chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!" - Shia LeBeouf
I've been watching Stranger writers come and go as far back as Kathleen Wilson. (That was her name?) Josh Feit. Erica C. Sean Nelson. That Parenthetical Girls guy. Bradley Steinbrewhatever. Sandeep Kaushik (or something). Mistress Matisse (who got pretty good as she wrote more columns). The guy writing stuff for SPD now. There's a bunch. And that ombudsman guy who died. (Ha ha.) It always feels like a sinking ship. No different now!
I always enjoyed your writing, Cienna, or at least your style. You always had good posts for Slog. (And you had the best name!) And it sounds like you don't have a good reason to leave! (e.g. You're not moving to Tennessee with a husband, or anything.) I know you're keeping your privacy, but... Anyway. I know that it's a job, not a life sentence. Hopefully you're stepping to something better.
Also, "callus" is the patch of toughened skin. "callous" is an adjective denoting a lack of empathy. Take note.
and with that, the SLOG becomes even more gender imbalanced in its contributors. Approaching 3:1 ratio M:F even.
(But seriously, you were my favorite.)
But you are taking your disgusting travel mug with you, right?
"I don't believe in ghosts for the same reason I don't believe in God: I'm no fun. Still, I'm embarrassed to say that for a while, I imagined my tiny house was haunted. Sometimes there'd be a soft scraping or tiny knocks at the windows, but whenever I opened the door or lifted a blind, no one was there. One evening at about dusk, I was reading on the couch when I heard footsteps on the roof. Pacing, just above my head. I jumped up and ran outside. There was no ghost on my roof, just a raccoon eating a cat."
That's a major bummer. Rainbow pirate bunny may be smiling on the outside, but he's frowning on the inside.
I wish you the best. Write us occasionally, will you?
& yeah..feminist killjoy. ;) Are Bethany & Mary gonna step up to those shitkicker shoes? ;) Is it even possible? Your writing was how I was finally able to convince a couple of nonbelivin' pals that street harassment - "smile, baby" - was a Thing.
Alas, alack.
It's been fun! Thanks for the feminist-snark! Have a great next-chapter-of-life! Best of luck!
I'm drained of words (the obligatory holiday vocal/written greetings do that to me) but not of sentiment.
I am sorry to see you go, and wish you the very best.
You will be missed!
You are an outstanding writer. Wherever you land, I look forward to reading you for many years to come.
Have fun!
you'll be missed.
you are a classy lady...
If only we were a wealthy bunch of commenters, we could supplement your salary so you might stay. Or actually pay you a salary.
Cienna, you will be so greatly missed. Your posts were obligatory reads for me and, I suspect, other female-gendered persons in particular.
Go spread your awesomeness across the globe, and come back every once in a while to report, will you?
Sniff sniff. . .
What everyone said here -- with extra emphasis on losing a great feminist voice.
Dang.
Lurves!