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just jameson on the rocks, ~bartender; needing a stiff one over here.

i've been very busy and haven't had much time to upload writing i've been doing in my (little) spare time, but as things are settling down, i'm feeling better about spreading myself out mentally again.

i moved north, so i'm in seattle these days. uprooting your entire life takes up more time than i'd like to admit; i was insistent upon not taking any time off from my hobbies' deadlines other than when we physically had our computers locked away in a uhaul. somehow managed to launch a project in this timeframe too. i thought maybe i'd be able to overcome having a transitional period at all, but this proved to be unequivocally false. i have to settle for the fact that i, too, am human and susceptible to the very same things i try to be resilient against.

thanks for asking, ~alex! what's been keeping you busy?

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~alex wrote:

This sounds rough. I'm not here to give you any advice on how to deal with being uprooted – each human tends to deal with it in their own ways, some got it easier than others. But have you considered to keep something around that reminds you of your old life and gives you a sense of comfort? Sometimes it may be healthier to just release this feeling in a healthy and controlled manner to get over it afterwards.

To be fair, though, this sense of not truly belonging somewhere will always linger in the back of the head, no matter how much you've grown accustomed to your new environment. You'll learn to get used to it eventually but take all the time you need – it's human, after all.

And me... Well, nothing much, the usual. Some autodidactic endeavors here, some quietly listening to the conversations in Midnight, but most importantly... keeping my front door free of masses of fallen leaves. Due to the sheer amount of trees in front of my home and the unfortunate direction of the wind through this street, almost all of it lands in front of my door and my garage. As much as I like autumn but I'm too young to experience this amount of back pain after cleaning a gutter.