in the moderate Aristotelian city

Hello people. It's been a while! (When did I make my last post, anyway?)

Things are moving in my life.

I have made a bunch of new friends via Reed in Partnership - which is pretty awesome.

I'm working on a few job leads. Yay for working on getting income! (I had a job interview last week, but didn't get the job. Oh well.)

My Mac is experiencing problems so it's currently "in the shop". He is going to call tomorrow and tell me what's going on.

I continue to be in therapy.

I am playing a lot of World of Warcraft. I have developed a crush on a member of my guild. At some point, I'm actually going to ask him out (but this will require me being able to be online a bit more regularly, and yes I'm putting it off because I'm not ready, leave me alone). This is Serious Progress in the world of me.

I'm remembering how much I love music and really wishing to be able to afford singing lessons again. And trying to put together a decent practice routine (but this is hard alone).

I want to be writing again but I have no ideas. So I'm working on finding ways to generate ideas. I seem to be dreaming a lot of cool stories lately but they don't seem to even last long enough for me to write the ideas down.

I am working on my stuff. A lot.

Things are getting better bit by bit.

In sum: hurray!

How are things with my readers?

I am home from North Ca'lina and alive, but quite tired.

Things appear to be looking up. The volunteering thing starts on Monday. I'm sort of even looking forward to my therapy appointment this week. And I'm knitting a fair bit and planning to write more than I'm actually writing.

(I should do some writing before I go to sleep, really.)

How's everyone been this week?

I finished my employability course. Now for some job-hunting.

Sign-ups for MtYG opened today and I am all signed up! Need to write a Dear Santa letter at some point. But beyond that, it's just sitting around waiting for my assignment to show up. (If you are, were or have considered being a popslasher at any point, you should totally consider signing up. Just saying!)

Haven't caught up with this week's SPN yet.

I am definitely Getting Better. Social life, daily showering, attending an employability course, improving the situation in my room. It's all good stuff! And I start therapy tomorrow, which should be interesting at the very least. More social life and more connection in general would be awesome, though. Working on that part.

Made bread yesterday. It was pretty tasty, but the texture was a bit dense. According to my book, that means it needs more kneading. So we'll see about trying again next week.

Also missed my nap yesterday which meant I was extraordinarily cranky all evening and had a very early night. Note to self: naps are good.

Oh, and absolutely everything has changed on World of Warcraft. Quite stressful - I have to learn to play Warrior all over again! (And all my other toons, but I'm definitely not thinking about that yet. New Warrior is enough of a learning curve all by itself, thanks.) Looks like the new expansion's going to be quite fun, though.

I'm still obsessed with Hit Record and its shiny awesomeness, but I'm also completely stuck on what to do over there. (I haven't even got my head around the UI yet!) But I did record my voice for a collaboration encouraging people to vote in the US mid-term elections. I approve of efforts to get people out to the polling booth, even in countries where I don't live!

I think that's all the updates for today! I think I'm going to try to make a conscious effort to show up more here. Hello!

Evening kittens!

Not much to write about tonight, but thought I would pop my head in.

Had a long and busy week. Went into Reed In Partnership three times. Exhausting! And it's four times next week, I'm starting a course there.

It'll either be very interesting or make me even sicker (I hope not the latter, but we'll see).

Finished a hat for my mum - there may be photos at some point soonish.

Have been rewatching the first season of Supernatural. Oh, it's clunky and awesome. I love that show. ♥ Nearly at the end of S1 now. Thinking about crossing it over with Inception, 'cause that's what I do now!

Trying to figure out what I should be posting about. I miss being active around here!

I am sort of hesitating to make this post in case it bursts my bubble. Or in case people suddenly start expecting things from me that I can't give yet.

But believe it or not... things appear to be looking up.

I'm finally getting a grip on my room and my stuff. Things are actually where I can find and use them and it's slightly amazing.

I'm continuing my small but important social life, and wondering about a little bit more of that lovely in-person interaction stuff.

I have an interview tomorrow morning with some people called Reed In Partnership who are all about helping people to get back into work after a period on sickness benefit. So you never know, I might have a job again in the near future. (Not counting on it, but we'll see.)

I have actually showered the last five mornings without fail. It's always embarrassing to admit this (and I have new readers now who don't know me), but that's a big old step for me. It's really helping me to feel like a human being again.

I'm trying to do a little journaling and processing now and then, and that's helping.

I'm writing again.

I'm knitting again.

Things are slightly, slightly getting done. And slightly happening.

I think I might be nearly ready to try having a life again.

(15ish months since I last went to work at a job. And counting. Let's see about getting these feet under me again, hey?)

Hello, lovely DW-and-LJ people!

I keep meaning to update and not doing it. Just like I keep meaning to do LOADS of stuff and not doing it.

So here's a basic rundown of what's going on in my life at the moment:

-Money's a huge issue. Ugh. Not wanting to think about it. (But I am thinking about it. Slowly.)

-I have fandoms again! Doctor Who (always! but Matt Smith captured my heart), Sherlock (which ate my brain), and Inception (which has actually, surprisingly, got me writing again). Popslash didn't go anywhere but my muses have abandoned me.

-I'm trying to get myself to play the piano. Harder than it looks! But I'm enjoying it.

-I'm having an actual social life! Seeing movies once a week with my lovely seiyaharris. It's a bit awesome to actually leave the house.

-I'm still depressed and exhausted all the time and it's driving me batty.

-I am however working on getting therapy from the WPF.

-I'm sorting out my belongings, finally. Not easy, but I'm getting support from my dad, and we're doing an exchange of labour (I'm helping him sort out his belongings, too).

-Oh, and I might go to a stitch and bitch at the beginning of October. More socializing, yay!

I think that's all for now.

Hello to New People on both LJ and DW, by the way. (Maybe I should do a "hello there this is me" post.)