BRB

As some of you may know, I have just completed my Bachelor of Information Technology (with Distinction) and so in May 2010, I will be wearing this:

But apart from gearing up to wear that, I’ve worked my butt off for three years straight to complete my degree and so I have decided to take a nice holiday to Spain, Portugal and Greece for Jan and half of Feb (and I will be spending my 21st birthday in Athens which will be totally awesome) to relax before I start my first non-internship real job in March.

My two main aims for the trip are:

• Drink my weight in Sangria and other assorted Spanish/Portuguese/Greek cocktails and wines
• Find the origin of Oporto burgers in Porto

Both extremely worthwhile causes.

As much as I would love to research and discuss social media and the internet while I’m away, I think it’s probably best that I disconnect from it all for a little while, and so I will unfortunately not be blogging until my return mid-Feb. However, I will try and tweet while I’m gone – so if you’re not following me and you know you want to, check me out at @jessnichols.

However, before I finish for the last time for three months – I do have some thankyous.

When I first started this blog in July, I really had no idea how it would turn out and I am really humbled to see people actually reading and commenting on my rants random thoughts about the digital sphere. So firstly, thank you to everyone who has read my blog – because without you, I wouldn’t have been able to expand my mind.

Thankyou to the #DOP crews in Sydney and Melbourne, I think you guys are so awesome; you are always full of good advice and I can’t wait until next year!

However, I should individually thank Abs for laughing at me when I got into my famous fight and Pon for being great sounding boards about my blog.

Special mention goes to Jye for letting me write a guest post for him and for really encouraging me within the Social Media realm.

Also, thanks to Ling for pissing me off making me realise the importance of seeing things from different perspectives.

Most importantly, thank you to Jordan for putting up with and supporting my massive blogging, Twittering, Facebooking and Foursquaring obsession.

So I hope you have enjoyed my blog in 2009 and I look forward to sharing some amazing stuff with you in 2010!