The semester sits at about its midway point and Georgetown students leave campus facing the sequestration and having elected a new GUSA president. While all the news may not be good, Georgetown has a lot to be thankful for. Vox is going on a hiatus for the next week, but we’ll be on top of breaking campus and sports news.

Vox is visiting Athens, Ga. over the break along with Assistant Leisure Editor Kirill Makarenko (hence the photo). What is everyone else doing over the break?

And feel free to share what you’re doing in the comments.

Photo: Carleton Atwater via Flickr.

As we let you know by tweet a few hours ago, Vox was having troubles with the intertubes. Both the break and our technical difficulties are over, however, and Vox will be posting on a regular schedule for the rest of this week and for the rest of the semester till spring break.

Good luck on the first day of classes. Be shrewd and trust your instincts; you have to live with your picks for the rest of the semester.

Image: Tri County Air

Don’t worry guys, we’re not dead (yet). But we’ll be trying to pick up the pieces of our GPA’s over the next few days. As such, we’ll be scaling back our coverage over the next few days. If anything happens, though, you know we’ll have you covered. Thanks for a great first couple of weeks!

Photo: calebdf

Since we plan to gorge ourselves with turkey for a better part of the next 48 hours, we’re closing the blog doors early this week. (We promise to jump into action if any important news breaks.)

But, we can’t go dark before giving thanks to Vox‘s readers and commenters. From your thoughtful debates to your nerdy comedy pyramids, you make our job much more entertaining that we deserve. And you spot our embarrassing typos!

We’ll be back with our regular posting schedule next week.

It broke our hearts when we learned that Georgetown’s resident blog queen, Venus Fly Trap, shut down her site this summer.

So, we invited her to join Vox.

Starting in two weeks, VFT will post bi-monthly advice columns about sex, dating, and anything else that’s inappropriate for polite conversations. But, there’s a catch—she needs your questions.

Here’s our request to you all: Dig down into your sexual psyche, then email questions to georgetownvenusflytrap@gmail.com. Anything related to relationships is fair game. (And we guarantee anonymity, so feel free to use pen names at your leisure.)

Let’s see what you’ve got, Georgetown. Venus Fly Trap is waiting.

Vox is going on vacation.

I’ll be in New Jersey next week, presumably doing all of those things that I see on MTV nowadays. But all of those gym workouts, tanning, and laundry, I won’t have much time to keep you updated on Georgetown’s most hard-hitting news.

I’ll check in from time to time to make sure you’re playing nice in the comments, but don’t expect to see too many posts around these parts while I’m gone. (Although, I promise to jump into action should another golf cart set on fire.)

Thanks for reading this summer. See you in a bit.

We fell sleep for a few hours and—BAM!—our 10,000th comment contest ended overnight. As promised, the winner will receive his very own Georgetown Barbie.

Our first five-figure comment, written by Jeffrey Bien (COL ’10), a.k.a. “Bring Back the Blingees!”, shows in oh-so-many ways why we love Vox commenters:

Seriously, can we make blingees? I’m envisioning a giant Bieber head saying “GET OUT OF MY GHETTO”
What do you think?

While we secretly hoped a resident would win, Jeffrey’s comment delighted us. Congrats, the Georgetown Barbie is forever yours.

At the risk of repeating ourselves, we want to thank everybody that reads Vox. Your tips, comments, and feedback keep this little blog going. Our job would be decidedly less fun—and more pointless—without you.

And while we’re elbow-deep in self-promotion, we just want to remind you to try submitting a slogan to our 2010 Campus Plan sign contest. We promise there’s no better way to waste away your precious summer hours.

“Sloppy Joe” DeGioia threw a hissy fit after we took away his Eric Cusimano Ken doll

In case you forgot, Vox plans to celebrate our impending 10,000 comment with a prize for one lucky reader.

And for the sake of fairness, we wanted to let you know that Vox‘s 9,950th comment was posted earlier today. We won’t tell you which comment was 9,950—because what’s the fun in that?—but we have a hunch that we’ll hit the 10,000 mark real soon. So, if you’re in the market for a Georgetown Barbie, it’s best to comment early and often.

Thanks again for reading Vox this summer. We love you all.

So, here’s the deal. When we signed on this morning, we realized that you readers have commented 9,750 times!

To thank all of you for reading and commenting, we’re holding a little contest. Whoever submits comment #10,000 to Vox will win the rights to a glorious prize. (And trust us, it’s really glorious.)

Thanks for sticking with Vox—we love all of your comments. Except maybe the porn spam. We could probably do without that.

We have a confession to make: our blogroll is woefully outdated and incomplete. So, that’s where you can help!

Do you blog? Are you at all related to Georgetown University? If so, fill out the form below and we’ll be happy to add you to our soon-to-be updated blog roll.

Georgetown has a short, but spectacular history of well-run student blogs, so we know there’s plenty out there just waiting to be discovered. So have at it—you may just be the next VFT, College Prepster, or @KingGeorgetown.

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Your Name
Your School/Year
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