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the good news
... is that i have a lot of non-Arisia stuff making me happy. & maybe soon I'll have time to post about it here! but truly, I'm ok!!! There is good in this world, & I'm sure fighting to keep it here. This entry was originally posted at https://minkrose.dreamwidth.org/1210607.html. You can comment there using OpenID, or on this entry. -
I am permanently done with Arisia
I’m writing this post because I want to have something to direct folks to when I inevitably get questions. I’ve been volunteering & attending Arisia for so long, I know it’ll take a while before it’s clear that I’m no longer part of it. I can no longer see a path to a healthy future for Arisia.
I will not be continuing my work with the Arisia ( Read more... ) -
alive, here, functioning
The (blurry jpg-artifacted) quote in my user icon reads ( Read more... ) -
I'm super overdue for a post
FYI, folks reading this via LiveJournal x-post -- I can't get LJ to load in my browser with my privacy extensions turned on so I'm just not reading it at all anymore. I miss y'all but currently the phone app is the only way I can read LJ & I just don't remember to do that very often ( Read more... ) -
At Christmas
We lit an ice candle on John's grave last night on Christmas Eve. Even though it was -8°, there were nearly a dozen candles lit on other graves. It was too cold to stay more than a minute or two but it is deeply moving to be surrounded by the light of other mourners in this time of darkness ( Read more... ) -
I am doing better
but there's just so much to explain about how I wasn't doing better, and why I am.... I never have the energy to sit down & write about it ( Read more... ) -
& it's over.
I'm actually not ready to write out how I feel -- I've spent the past two days sleeping much more than usual (catching up from not sleeping enough earlier in the week, mostly due to nightmares).
But, the first 3 days went better than I expected, and the last one was really, really hard.
I did the best I could. I did not finish everything I ( Read more... ) -
can't sleep
Next week, I have my last four days at my job. I haven't posted about this publicly anywhere else, yet. Next week is mostly going to be writing up documentation and transferring my projects as best I can into the care of others ( Read more... ) -
OpenID migration info!
I DID NOT KNOW THIS ( Read more... ) -
a general sense of things
1) concussion seems to not be a thing. Current theory is since the action was so similar, there was a automatic-body-reaction related to the previous trauma, but other than a bit of headachey-ness (that seems unrelated to anything), I'm feeling mostly fine ( Read more... )