So, LJ.
Er. Hi.
I realize it's been a long time. Last year was just...pretty damn bad. Lots of health-related stuff, settling into full-time freelancing stuff, nearly getting evicted stuff, and finally having a two-month-long "I can't take it anymore!" meltdown stuff early this year. :/ Basically: being responsible for 99.999% of a household's expenses during the first year of running a new business is not fun. I do not recommend it to anyone.
But, finally, I think I've gotten more of the hang of being self-employed than not. My partner has a job again, and that is really helping. And I've also got increased meds that are helping me not want to break down sobbing every two days, so that's good (though really, not living in a society that overtaxes and overworks people regularly would also rock but lawl America!). I'm still overworked, but that is probably not going to change for a while. Right now, I'm working on putting together my editing website (which, shockingly enough, I had no time whatsoever to do last year), and trying to get caught up with anthologies that just couldn't happen last year. It seems that LJ is pretty dead so I may be making more use of tumblr in the future. I'll let you know if/when I do that. Is everybody just hanging out there and on Facebook these days?
Anyway, I missed you all. Sorry for vanishing for a while. I haven't been in over my head with so many things like that, basically, ever, and after a while I was just too exhausted and stressed and alternately distracted and threatened by people who held power over my shelter to social network.
I realize it's been a long time. Last year was just...pretty damn bad. Lots of health-related stuff, settling into full-time freelancing stuff, nearly getting evicted stuff, and finally having a two-month-long "I can't take it anymore!" meltdown stuff early this year. :/ Basically: being responsible for 99.999% of a household's expenses during the first year of running a new business is not fun. I do not recommend it to anyone.
But, finally, I think I've gotten more of the hang of being self-employed than not. My partner has a job again, and that is really helping. And I've also got increased meds that are helping me not want to break down sobbing every two days, so that's good (though really, not living in a society that overtaxes and overworks people regularly would also rock but lawl America!). I'm still overworked, but that is probably not going to change for a while. Right now, I'm working on putting together my editing website (which, shockingly enough, I had no time whatsoever to do last year), and trying to get caught up with anthologies that just couldn't happen last year. It seems that LJ is pretty dead so I may be making more use of tumblr in the future. I'll let you know if/when I do that. Is everybody just hanging out there and on Facebook these days?
Anyway, I missed you all. Sorry for vanishing for a while. I haven't been in over my head with so many things like that, basically, ever, and after a while I was just too exhausted and stressed and alternately distracted and threatened by people who held power over my shelter to social network.