To the shock and awe of everyone, I still exist. Relatively speaking. I haven't looked at plurk or for startlingly close to two months now without comment, so this is a combination of explanation and contact point as I try to have any online presence again.
Long story as short as someone like me can make it: in these waning days of my grad degree, my mental health is typically such that I can just barely do the things I need to do in order to survive plus maybe two other things.
In December, where had no activity check requirements, I decided to jettison anything that took more than two brain cells to make room for Christmas-time family obligations, as I have the bad habit of making my mental health secondary to not bothering people, lmao.
I was planning to start picking things back up in January, but my thesis was supposed to get completed last Sunday in order to be able to defend before the external examiner got busy through March, so that took up a lot of attention.
And I also felt obligated to make this plurk first to let people know what was up, and that became easy to put off until bedtime, an then put off to the next day because it would be when a lot of people would be asleep, and then repeat.
Anyway, I don't know how regular I'll be at either plurk or , but I'm going to do my best particularly with the latter. If there's anything someone wants to let me know about the things I missed, please let me know here! I will at the least check this plurk.
(In , one of the only things I actually kept up with was reading the Christmas gifts that Leslie got and they warmed my heart greatly. I spent some time thinking about what sort of gifts Leslie might have given people, so there might be month-late comments in some inboxes coming up, lmao.)
welcome back! glad you took some time to take care of yourself. it's been a slow couple months honestly and this month is half ac so hopefully you'll be able to ease back in without too much trouble
i basically took nov and dec off as well, so i think a lot of us vanished a bit! i hope things get better soon, and im always here if you wanted to ease back in with a casual thread or so!
I'm glad you're doing okay, I was wondering why you went silent but I figured you just took a break because you're a fairly thoughtful and sensible person. Glad you took some time off to take care of yourself.
gunsandchocolate: Wow, it's like the game is helping me to ease back in! How kind.
ᴡᴏʟғ.
: A casual thread to ease back in would be lovely! So long as I don't do my usual mistake when I return from a hiatus to let my backed up RP drive explode and take on so many threads I bury myself, lmao.
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: Sorry for worrying you! I should break the bad habit of saying nothing when I decide to disappear, but at least now I'm explaining it.
bird crimes
: That's a very kind way to think about it. Thank you.
Fudgehead
: Thanks! I did my best to do so.
ᴡᴏʟғ. : A casual thread to ease back in would be lovely! So long as I don't do my usual mistake when I return from a hiatus to let my backed up RP drive explode and take on so many threads I bury myself, lmao.
bird crimes : That's a very kind way to think about it. Thank you.
Fudgehead : Thanks! I did my best to do so.
hypemachine. : hey hey heyyyyyyyy