*sighs and summons willpower*

[guardians_song]

-HIATUS NOTICE-

I love you all, but, uh... the problem is that I do love you all, and I need to concentrate. So I'll be off of LJ and Dreamwidth for the next two-weeks-and-a-bit.

I will STILL be reachable via my fandom e-mail at beastofthesea@hotmail.com, and my Dreamwidth notifications are slaved to said e-mail, so I'll respond to comments made on my Dreamwidth. I might also wind up at people's journals due to tracking notifications, so don't mind me if I do.

I will not, however, be posting, and I will not be checking my f-lists like a mouse hammering on the "DISPENSE COCAINE" button. ...I've realized, in the course of getting my head in gear after 2012, that I've taken to doing far too many things as an escape mechanism, and I have to stop that. So that will be part of what I'm doing while I'm gone, the other part being studying my rear end off. :D;;

[...Incidentally, I've now gone off of sodas as well as caffeine after reading an article that consumption of diet sodas is linked to higher rates of depression (more info here), and that's helping me think better as well. Just so everyone on my f-lists who might find that relevant-to-her-interests knows, which is... a fair number of f-listers, I'd say.]

Anyway, my goals? To wrench myself up to where I should have been if I'd never fallen into the numb trance of depression and the muggy haze of other emotional problems, to make myself the person I want to be and should be, and to regain who I used to be years and years ago, when I did things because I enjoyed them rather than to escape the world around me and the disillusioned apathy inside my head. The third is half done, as those moods only happen on and off these days, but I still need to work on the other two-and-a-half. :)

Again, I love you all, and I won't be totally gone. ...Just acting at a much-reduced activity level.

If all goes well, I should return in reasonable condition and with a few new ideas for sporkings/projects/etc. ...I'll be working to make all go well. That's a promise, and if I make it to the f-lists, it should terrify me into actually carrying through. :D;;

Anyway, hope you get through that time in good condition as well, and see you then! :D