Personal: Out for a Bit
The universe JRR Tolkien created has a very, very special place in my heart. Reasons why the book I chose to use as a special souvenir of friendships was a leather-bound copy of The Hobbit. Which is why of course months ago I gleefully joined a plan to see a double-set of showings -- including Midnight, opening night -- for the upcoming cinematic return to the magical world JRR Tolkien created and Peter Jackson brought to life, alongside many of my very closest friends, in a lifetime richly blessed.
Which, when I was forced this evening to *cancel* all of those plans, is how I knew Shit Is Getting Real.
It is true work has been progressively building and building recently, approaching some of the heaviest periods of my PhD years and even starting to rival the pace of my full-time clinical periods, all-nighters and all. But there's also been a rapidly escalating number of other things that have become important for me to do. Important for me to try to help with. An escalating number of things that have in the last few months rapidly built upon each other and are all suddenly happening all at once. Efforts that involve things like spending the afternoon a few weekends ago out in the countryside, at the home of two dear friends, so that I could help them with my experience and background explore all the issues surrounding making their last plans surrounding her impending death.
You've seen hints of this in entries here and there -- and seen it in the dramatically decreased volume of posts you've seen from me recently. But things are really coming to a head, in terms of things I need to do. Shit Is Getting Real, all over, and I've got to buckle down hard and take care of all of it.
Which is all a long way of saying that I'm likely going to be scarce around these parts -- and all the rest of the online world -- for the next bit of time. I'm going to be scarce on G+ and Facebook and everywhere else. If you post something, there's going to be a pretty good chance I'm not going to see it for a while, alas and apologies. If you need me, you know how to reach me, and I'll be there. And if you think I need to know -- or would have wanted to know -- something, I'd appreciate sincerely an e-mail letting me know. If you think there's some annoucement or bit of news on G+ or Facebook or LJ that I should or I would want to have known about, I'd appreciate the heads up.
Rather than stringing things out, I figure a clean break and a forthright announcement and apology is the best way of doing things. My lack of comments and replies upcoming isn't because I'm deliberately ignoring y'all: I'm just buckling down for a while, going a bit off the grid while I take care of things and friends who need taking care of.
See you when I see you. :-)