So holidays were decent. Head is too fuzzy to articulate things. There was more good Kashable food, time spent with friends and family, and also a newer, warmer hoody involved. Plus anime. bossgoji, mmsword, and I helped introduce taliabear to mecha shows. We only got through Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Aim for the Top!: Gunbuster while I was there, but ( Read more... )

Twice in the past week, friends of mine have discussed serious troubles with their mental wellbeing, most notably the sense of not being a real person.  As I said to one of them, I wish I didn't understand what they meant as well as I do.  Apart from small leakages of selfhood through all my damage, physical and psychological, I have not truly felt ( Read more... )

Early last Tuesday afternoon, I took a long lunch break (with nothing else to do in the meantime) to drive to my parents' place and continue work from there, which turned out to be a couple hours of nothing.  I did my few assignments on Wednesday, had dinner, and met with mmsword to head to datacat's place.  Thanks to the late trip (mmsword arrived exactly as expected ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty decent weekend for me so far.. Friday morning, I finally had my taxes done at H&R Block. Thanks to the handy helper there, I'll be getting back approximately one month's pay.. which helps me bunches. Sometime in the next week or three, I should receive a direct deposit to my bank account that will help me pay rent here and put a ( Read more... )