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snowgallI've been away for a while, but tonight I decided to tackle my inbox which has been taunting me (142 messages, christ!) I've got serious inbox anxiety, and seeing that I had an avalanche of messages waiting for me actually made it harder for me to even attempt to look at them :/
But the weird thing is that easily 75% of the messages were simply LJ alerts of people's birthdays and whatnot. Apparently I've missed ALL the birthdays. Very sorry about that!
The other 25% of the messages were all nice comments on earlier entries, so as usual my anxiety was entirely unfounded, but there's no talking sense to it.
But even after going through it all, somehow or other there are still 2 unread messages somewhere in there which I CANNOT find. I went back though several pages, but I gave up after a while. So if I never responded to one of your messages, I'm also very sorry about that, and I don't know how to fix it.
The US election has gotten me seriously depressed (as if I needed any help with that!) but I've been venting as much of my anger and frustration as possible over on tumblr. Also calling my congressperson, but he's a moron and a Trump supporter, so it feels hopeless.
Hope everyone is doing well. I'm way behind on all reading too. I've mostly gotten sidetracked into the Stucky fandom, and as with most things I get into, I get majorly obsessed for an intense period of time and then I cool off again. I think I'm in a cooling-off period now.
Anyway, just thought I'd poke my head back in and say "hi".
But the weird thing is that easily 75% of the messages were simply LJ alerts of people's birthdays and whatnot. Apparently I've missed ALL the birthdays. Very sorry about that!
The other 25% of the messages were all nice comments on earlier entries, so as usual my anxiety was entirely unfounded, but there's no talking sense to it.
But even after going through it all, somehow or other there are still 2 unread messages somewhere in there which I CANNOT find. I went back though several pages, but I gave up after a while. So if I never responded to one of your messages, I'm also very sorry about that, and I don't know how to fix it.
The US election has gotten me seriously depressed (as if I needed any help with that!) but I've been venting as much of my anger and frustration as possible over on tumblr. Also calling my congressperson, but he's a moron and a Trump supporter, so it feels hopeless.
Hope everyone is doing well. I'm way behind on all reading too. I've mostly gotten sidetracked into the Stucky fandom, and as with most things I get into, I get majorly obsessed for an intense period of time and then I cool off again. I think I'm in a cooling-off period now.
Anyway, just thought I'd poke my head back in and say "hi".
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Date: 2016-12-16 10:13 am (UTC)No need to feel guilty about anything. Follow (or not) whatever fandoms make you happy.
Yeah, the election was horrible. My solace was being surrounded by people who felt the same and were determined to keep working. When I know my schedule better, I may do some volunteering for an immigrant rights project.
In honor of solstice, let me offer you Pete Seeger singing Quite Early Morning (It's Darkest Before the Dawn).
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Date: 2016-12-16 04:00 pm (UTC)I am fortunate that nearly everyone I know or interact with regularly feels the same way about the election, but that also just means I'm that much more in the bubble, you know? So I was taken completely by surprise by it.
My husband was also out of town that day (in a deep red area too), so I had to weather the results a bit on my own at first, which was hard.
Thanks for the lovely song link :)