The Sounds of Silence

[in_the_blue]

It's been quiet here.

A little too quiet. I'm starting to accept that the age of online journaling is a thing of the past, or will be soon. Then I ask myself: am I enough in love with it to be a champion for its continued use? I don't know.

Since I got back after my dad's memorial (which was wonderful - he would've approved), I've been catching up on life and playing Dragon Age: Inquisition (I just got all the dlc, spent more on that than on the game itself which was SO worth it). Question of the day: Have I been too engrossed in it? I saw a pile of eucalyptus bark beneath a tree today and thought "AHA! DEATHROOT! I should stop and harvest it."

Tomorrow I have an all-day workshop for Society for Children's Book Writers & Editors, which I hope will be as good as the last one I attended. Otherwise, I've been checking in on my mother-in-law every day and doing the usual expected & unexpected shit.

Hope all of you are well. Talk to me.

Comments

[vivien]

Don't go. I'll be so sad to not have an online journal to flee to in the Internet wilderness.

I even cranked up my Halloween countdown this year!

[ceitfianna]

I still journal here as I feel far more comfortable being honest here than Tumblr or Twitter. To me this is my home and everywhere else is good for different ways of connecting.

I've been applying for lots of jobs, having skype interviews with a school in Baltimore and being slightly depressed after fact checking a book about Yemen.

The workshop sounds fascinating. What are you hoping to get from it?

[silveraspen]

Hi. :)

I'm glad the memorial was good. I've been thinking about you. I am shit at writing much of anything these days, although I go through waves of trying. I figure right now it's part and parcel of every little thing on the family side, Talia's passing (which still hits me in new ways all too frequently), and trying to stay afloat at work, which is harder than usual. Mind you, there are good things too, but I evidently haven't had energy enough to write about them either. Wtf, self?

Anyway. Hi. It's good to hear from you. Right now I am typing this from a room at a B&B in east TN for a family wedding - strange how small the world is any more, isn't it?

[king_touchy]

Real life family stuff keeps dragging me away from DW (and will for the foreseeable future), but I come back when I can. (Like now, heh.) And NaNoWriMo is coming right for us! but that means I'll procrastinate more on DW than anywhere else, heh.

I see lots of Yuletide content hitting my reading circle. It's That Time of Year, for sure.

[waddledoodles]

hey there

haven't touched any dragon age but i've heard wonderful things about it. one day, when i have A Powerful PC...

[misslucyjane]

Hey lady.

I just don't find myself with a lot to say right now, really. Work isn't particularly entertaining unless you're there, and the only other things I'm doing is writing, so, yeah.

[agonistes]

hello, i would like to hear about your inquisition playthrough! also you are not the only one who gets the urge to harvest useful crafting materials. *shifty*

(i know you're not a tumblr person but i have developed a dragon age situation so dire that there's now a sideblog. but also trespasser spoilers!)