I feel like every e-mail I write needs to start with "I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you."

And that's for the ones I actually manage to write.

It's time to talk about my mental health.

(Oh, funMy last manic episode went from approximately March to May of 2008. There are no exact start- or end-points, but that's when the biggest stuff went down. Since then, I've stayed on my meds, avoided mania, and been mostly depressed. However, there have been many moments of happiness in there. ( Read more... )

I'm going to write a bit about the current state of my Spoken Word Thing ( Read more... )

There's been a pattern to this for the last several years, ever since this LiveJournal stopped being my primary vehicle for expressing myself online. I come back here and make a post, I announce that I'm going to try and get back to some degree of regular posting, I carry out some degree of regular posting (sometimes not much), I fade away, a year ( Read more... )

I thought Solstice was going to be lousy this time. Things were the way they usually are, meaning that I felt worn out and isolated and didn’t feel like there was much point in doing anything ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking hard, struggling to make a difficult decision. I've been needing to move away from my current housing situation for a long time now, but there have been very few options in this area that would work for me, because of the intersection of financial, legal, and psychological reasons. But by coincidence, just recently two ( Read more... )

Okay, a bit of housekeeping here. I had a tradition going where I'd start each new year by making a list of the books I had read the previous year. It was fun to do, and sometimes even useful to look back on. But I never posted a list for last year, because I wasn't posting anything! At least I can get this out of the way now, before this year ( Read more... )

So, it's been more than a year and a half(!) since my last LJ entry. I've been checking in regularly. And even, very rarely, making a comment here or there. But no new entries from me ( Read more... )

So. I've been searching for things to do that are within my current abilities and that will actually make some kind of noticeable improvement in my life. There aren't all that many meaningful projects I can think of right now that I'm up to the challenge of. There is one thing that always makes me feel better, though, and doesn't have to take a ( Read more... )

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