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Public Apology Time!
So, I dropped off the internet for about... half a month, I guess. I figured, since I've made a bit of a public nuisance of myself, in the sense of modding comms and starting projects and generally having responsibilities/duties towards people other than myself, I should first and foremost apologize, and then explain why for any who care to listen.
So, first and foremost: I apologize for dropping internet-dead without warning. Work and personal life got very crazy for a while, and I had to drop fandom and other internet activities until I got that straightened out. I'm back now.
Explanation, for the curious: This is mostly addressed to those of you I know online. You weird people I've ACTUALLY MET, I see you rarely enough that you probably haven't noticed my absence.
What's been going on is this: at work, I have had a string of stiff deadlines on two different major projects that kept me at work 3 hours later than usual for almost two weeks straight. I also switched contracts at work and went through the hiring process again, except this time for a full-time (instead of 40-hr-a-week part time) position, which meant I had to go to orientation, set up all my benefits, and basically get a lot of settling in done.
Meanwhile, in personal news, my fiancé is moving here (Washington D.C. metro area) from Oregon. That's aaaaallll the way across the country, oh yeah. With all three of our cats. We have been trying to find a subletter for our apartment. I visited him for a week during Thanksgiving holiday (second time I've seen him since MAY), and had no internet access during that period. Since then we've been frantically long-distance organizing the move, what to do with the flat until we return, how to get him and our cats here safely, and his job situation when he does get down here.
I was also sick before all this with tonsillitis for over a month, which exhausted me nicely just in time for all that to kick in. But hey, all better now!
Just to add a bit more spice, I've been trying to sign up for high-level evening math classes at a local prominent university and also I have a private web design contract due and another I'm just starting.
Given all that, internet anything, and fandom specifically, dipped rather low on my list of priorities.
Some of these things I could have known in advance, some not. I wish I could have warned everyone anyway. I didn't, and I apologize.
Things that will now no longer be dead, like me:
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grand_line_vine is back in business, finally and for real. I REALLY WANT MORE STAFF. Please? I'm especially and specifcially looking for backup editors, who will collect the news when I can't, so that the newsletter doesn't collapse utterly when my life does. I specifically don't want the newlsetter to be 100% dependent on me, so I'm very anxious to find people who can help with that. You wouldn't even have to do all of it -- if someone is willing to just be an LJ backup editor, or an Arlong park backup editor or a FF.net backup editor, that would be lovely.
ffarchive is getting its butt back in gear as well. Browsing and Searching post is being worked on right now, and should be up shortly.
picks_n_paeans will also rise from the dead as soon as I've discharged less personal responsibilities. Since the rec journal is not something others depend on me for, it's lower on my list of priorities.
Communties I mod, expect to see me back and commenting/posting away again.ff_100, avatar_flashfic, and atlaforgrownups, I'm looking at you.
Oh, and once I've discharged those more public duties, I fully intend to get some drawing and writing done. I actually went over my list of completed and in-progress stories and have done a lot of work on most of the stories there, so expect to see more soon =)
So, that's that. I was away, I apologize, I'm back.
So, first and foremost: I apologize for dropping internet-dead without warning. Work and personal life got very crazy for a while, and I had to drop fandom and other internet activities until I got that straightened out. I'm back now.
Explanation, for the curious: This is mostly addressed to those of you I know online. You weird people I've ACTUALLY MET, I see you rarely enough that you probably haven't noticed my absence.
What's been going on is this: at work, I have had a string of stiff deadlines on two different major projects that kept me at work 3 hours later than usual for almost two weeks straight. I also switched contracts at work and went through the hiring process again, except this time for a full-time (instead of 40-hr-a-week part time) position, which meant I had to go to orientation, set up all my benefits, and basically get a lot of settling in done.
Meanwhile, in personal news, my fiancé is moving here (Washington D.C. metro area) from Oregon. That's aaaaallll the way across the country, oh yeah. With all three of our cats. We have been trying to find a subletter for our apartment. I visited him for a week during Thanksgiving holiday (second time I've seen him since MAY), and had no internet access during that period. Since then we've been frantically long-distance organizing the move, what to do with the flat until we return, how to get him and our cats here safely, and his job situation when he does get down here.
I was also sick before all this with tonsillitis for over a month, which exhausted me nicely just in time for all that to kick in. But hey, all better now!
Just to add a bit more spice, I've been trying to sign up for high-level evening math classes at a local prominent university and also I have a private web design contract due and another I'm just starting.
Given all that, internet anything, and fandom specifically, dipped rather low on my list of priorities.
Some of these things I could have known in advance, some not. I wish I could have warned everyone anyway. I didn't, and I apologize.
Things that will now no longer be dead, like me:
grand_line_vine is back in business, finally and for real. I REALLY WANT MORE STAFF. Please? I'm especially and specifcially looking for backup editors, who will collect the news when I can't, so that the newsletter doesn't collapse utterly when my life does. I specifically don't want the newlsetter to be 100% dependent on me, so I'm very anxious to find people who can help with that. You wouldn't even have to do all of it -- if someone is willing to just be an LJ backup editor, or an Arlong park backup editor or a FF.net backup editor, that would be lovely.ffarchive is getting its butt back in gear as well. Browsing and Searching post is being worked on right now, and should be up shortly.picks_n_paeans will also rise from the dead as soon as I've discharged less personal responsibilities. Since the rec journal is not something others depend on me for, it's lower on my list of priorities.Communties I mod, expect to see me back and commenting/posting away again.
ff_100, avatar_flashfic, and atlaforgrownups, I'm looking at you.Oh, and once I've discharged those more public duties, I fully intend to get some drawing and writing done. I actually went over my list of completed and in-progress stories and have done a lot of work on most of the stories there, so expect to see more soon =)
So, that's that. I was away, I apologize, I'm back.