I’ve been talking about depression less, lately. Well, a lot less, lately. (I noticed I’ve dropped about ten subscribers, which may or may not be related, eheh.) Instead I’ve been talking about books, writing, things I’m doing. I might as well tell you why this is, and what you can expect from me, from this [...]

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I’ve had an incredibly frustrating morning, and of the six or eight or so tasks I had planned for my trip to Mt. Shasta, I managed to get a coffee and make four color copies. No checks where they were supposed to be, no people where they were supposed to be. Driving from place to [...]

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Once my desktop was bare (still giving me starts now and again, thinking Finder has crashed), I became acutely aware of how very plain, homely and folder-like the few folders I have there are. I spent last night in an external hard drive quest for icons. My “to the external drive” folder is a Japanese [...]

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Cleaned the Hoshichan archives through August 2003. I think what I’m most profoundly aware of, seeing all this, is how quickly I became stressed, overwhelmed and depressed once I started school. I think I would’ve told myself anything to reassure myself, but… it’s pretty plain in hindsight that I was NOT happy, pretty much from [...]

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My office is still a chaotic disaster, although furniture was rearranged to my liking. I have more storage space; it’s all up to organizing now (buu buu.) Most things still need going through, shuffling around, and the weekend filled with random changes in plan, such that now it’s 4 pm on Sunday afternoon and I’m [...]

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One of the personal struggles I’ve never managed to get control of is my weight. While not as overweight as some, I do have a good 40-50 pounds I’d love to lose. Unfortunately, I love food, and it’s a comfort thing. I shopping-therapy-ed our finances into a state of emergency, and eating is… well, comforting. [...]

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Today I tried to start my work week differently — namely, by working. I’ve had a terrible first two weeks of 2008, and things desperately needed changing. I managed to work all day, with minimal unrelated surfing, email-checking, etc. I caught up on all maintenance and finished a large content rewrite I’ve been working on [...]

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