I do apologize for being distant lately. The last month or so has been a clusterfuck of things, and I've by and large just been too nervous to poke a lot of people very often. This goes for a lot of places, a lot more people than ~town, but it definitely applies here too.

The money situation is looking to be fine. Bonus pay even gives me a little more than just $50 of wiggle room, which is extremely nice.

I've still been prodding at my room to try to clean it up every so often. Not all that much luck, most of the time, but every now and then we'll make a noticeable chunk of progress. Was too tired to do anything today, but maybe tomorrow we'll be able to get to work on it some more.

I think part of the nerves to talk to a lot of people is the fear of having one of those "hey" "hi" "sup" "not much you" "not too much lol" types of conversations, or one where I just end up venting out a bunch of negative stuff weighing me down. Neither one is really something someone wants to see, I feel like, so I just kinda sit there for a while. At least lately I've been better at touching base every once in a while, instead of just... completely disappearing. Progress is progress, eh?

Maybe I need to get more creative again. I was doing good on that at the end of July and beginning of last month, but with everything hitting the fan I pretty much fell flat on my face. We're getting back up to our feet slowly on this one.

Work schedule this week is a bit rough. I think what gets to me the most is that it's impossible to adjust, because things either keep changing or I get bounced back and forth. (That last one is funny, because I actually <i>was</i> starting to get used to it, then it changed again. Oh well, weekends exist again!)

I wonder what the near future will bring. Just gotta soldier on through this week, and hopefully things will get a little more manageable. I guess I'll start trying to poke people some more again. At least more than once every few weeks.