The Knight Shift

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Like Michael Corleone said: “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”

Last week I posted that it might be goodbye for good for my blogging.  Lots of things went into that.  I have wound up extremely busy with work-related stuff lately (speaking of which, I’m soon going to be advertising freelance writing services on this blog, and if you want to go ahead and solicit my services e-mail me at theknightshift@gmail.com and I’ll be happy to discuss it with you!).

And then, from my perspective, some… very lousy things happened on this end.  My spirit wound up darn nearly broken.  Friends counseled me to not be discouraged, to keep going.  That this blog has given them hope when they needed it, even if at times I myself feel little or no hope at all.

Huh.  Imagine that.  Getting hope from the hopeless.  I suppose anything ...

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In light of the e-mails that came asking if things were okay on this end, I’m feeling led to address why I’ve been absent for the better part of the past two weeks.

There’s really no other way to put it: I got hit with a bipolar depressive episode.  The worst that I have had to go through in a very long time.  And it absolutely robbed me of my desire to write or to post anything at all.  Apart from a few Twitters or Tweets or whatever they’re called, my activity online was a fair reflection of my activity in real life: pretty much nil.

I’ve written about bipolar depression before, but this latest bout
refreshed in my mind how horrible this condition is and how I would
never, ever wish it upon any person.  One moment, you’re feeling high on life.  And the next, totally without warning, your ...

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The Knight Shift, Facebook, like meAt long last, this blog has a bona-fide presence on Facebook!  It’s been up for awhile now but I wanted to make some posts on it to sorta “furnish the place” before going public with it

Anyhoo, the URL thingy is facebook.com/theknightshiftblog (pretty clever, huh?).  The Facebook site’s primary function will be to share posts that I make here on the blog.  But I also have plans to use it for other neat stuff: anything from previews for coming attractions to emergency posts from the field when full-blown blogging isn’t an option, to… dunno, maybe a recipe or two.  I aim to have the place as hopping with seemingly random iotas of information, thoughts and wild ideas as this blog is.

Okay well… “like” me, why don’cha? 🙂 ...

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Being Bipolar, The Knight Shift, bipolar disorder, mental illness


This is the latest in a series of articles that The Knight Shift and its strange proprietor is glad to present about what it is to have bipolar disorder.  As always, I am attempting to chronicle and document my journey through a life with mental illness thoroughly, with honesty, and at times with a healthy dose of humor!  If you are new to this blog (hey, stick around!  I  try to keep things interesting around here 🙂 then you may wish to read the previous entries of Being Bipolar.  Whether you have kept up with the series or are just now discovering it, this new installment takes us into the wild and unpredictable realm of medications and mental illness.



Let’s talk about… drugs!

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, medication time

I’ve had five possible installments for the next Being Bipolar sitting on my desktop for the better part of a year because I hadn’t been able ...

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I needed to unplug from some things for the past couple of weeks. Including this blog.

Nothing traumatic or crazy happened. ‘Cept I chose to focus on a few things and getting other things re-focused that had been lingering too much for too long.

This blog has been around for nine years now (wow!). In that time it has become quite a chronicle, a collection of documentation, about the evolution and development of that strange and bizarre creature that God created in Robert Christopher Knight. And that’s what it will continue to be, until whatever point if and when I decide that it’s time to retire from blogging.

But sometimes, that evolution and development appreciates the time to rest and reflect. And I’m still reflecting now. There might not be the frequency of posts that many readers (gauging from the amount of e-mails that came in) seem to enjoy, at ...

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…that was a crazy past 72 or so hours!!

Got a lot accomplished though. More than I’ve been able to do in a long long time.

So I remembered that I have a blog. Guess I should post some stuff and try to get caught up, huh?...

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This is the sixth installment of an ongoing and admittedly irregular series on The Knight Shift about what it is like to have the mental illness called bipolar disorder. I am attempting this endeavor with candor, with honesty, and at times with humor. If you’re a new-ish reader of this blog you may wish to read the previous entries of Being Bipolar and check out the video supplements along with them. You don’t have to go back into previous essays in order to “get” what I’m writing about this time, but you are certainly invited to read them at your convenience 🙂

So it’s been awhile since I did an installment of Being Bipolar. Like, more than a year.

Much has happened since then. Mom passed away. There have been other family and friends that have also left us. But also, many new family and friends have come into my ...

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Dear readers of this blog,

As much as I would sincerely like to help some of you in this regard, I honestly do not have any privileged information about where anyone might be able to purchase a moonshine still. Neither do I happen to have in my possession any recipes for the manufacture of moonshine.

However if anyone reading this does have that information and wishes to volunteer it for publication, I would be more than happy to do so on this site.

Thanks....

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So for the past several weeks your friend and humble blogger has been busy.

How busy? I was at ActionFest in Asheville two weeks ago, and I still haven’t had time to do a decent write-up about it (including pictures of me with Tom Berenger and a few other folks). Heck, I’m dying to tell y’all about just Solomon Kane (easily the finest and most faithful adaptation of a Robert E. Howard character I’ve yet beheld).

That’s all coming soon, I think, Along with a piece that I’ve been wrestling with for some time now, and now is the time to finally unload it.

But since a number of nice e-mails have come in asking “where the heck are you Chris?!” and since it’s been too gosh-darn long since I’ve posted any more photos of the lovely ladies in my family, I thought I’d make up for it.

Want to ...

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Wow. Didn’t mean to go so long without writing a blog post. But I rather enjoyed my unplanned respite. Didn’t go anywhere. Just… felt led to spend time away from the keyboard, letting God lead me to contemplate some things.

So now that I’m back…

1. Elton John at the Roanoke Civic Center last week was the most electrifying concert that I’ve ever been to. From the moment he took to the stage he performed for darn nearly three hours without stopping. It has to be said: this man is show business personified.

2. The season finale of The Walking Dead, I watched with my girlfriend Kristen and her mom. All three of us were screaming throughout and I dang nearly went berzerk with giddy excitement when we got our first look at Michonne (with those two zombies in tow). Going out of Season 2 by showing us the ...

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