Right... so, I'm back.

[genetic_drift]

For reals this time.  (Yes, yes, I know I said something similar in a previous post, but this time I mean it.)

I'm not sure how to explain why I was away so long.  A lot of stuff has happened in the past few months.  It seems like something would happen on the scale somewhere between 'noteworthy' and 'earth-shattering', I'd then try to process it, and before I settled out how I felt about it... *KAPOW*, another 'noteworthy' to 'earth-shattering' thing would come along.

So what were some of these things?  I'll talk about them more in detail as I finish getting my thoughts together, but what the heck, here are some of the highlights...

• Job.  I have one, and it's a good one.  Quite good.  Shockingly good.  (Like... really, really, really, really, really good.)
• Still staying with my friends, but only for another 2 to 4 weeks tops.  (I'm pretty sure I've decided on an apartment complex)
• I came out to my mom.  (Her response can be condensed basically into "For god's sake, don't tell your father.".)
• I lost Velvet kitteh.  (The people that were watching her got careless and let her out.  I'm still really upset about it.)
• There's other stuff too.  Fairly big stuff.  But I'm dealing with some shame over some of it, and I'm not quite ready to talk about it.

So yeah... if you'll forgive me for my appalling absence, you'll see that I actually am back.  For what it's worth... I've missed you guys.

Chase