So, for those who know me, I'm usually fairly chatty on things such as Discord, and I log in frequently to Second Life (as is evidenced by my gallery). For the last month, since roughly the last bits of December, I've been particularly silent, barely interacting.

The main reason for this has been a particularly vicious case of COVID-19, which manifested as two illnesses back to back (which I mistakenly thought WERE two separate illnesses). The first part came out as a simple mild cold, which laid me up for a week (with two of the days being of course exceedingly mild). This was followed by a gap of a week and a half where I thought, incorrectly, I was simply having minor lingering chest congestion. Then, the "main event" decided to make itself known like the big top circus coming to town. And good gods it came in like gangbusters!

Currently, I'm still fighting that war. For nearly two weeks I've been laid up at home, with nary the energy to do anything except wallow in abject misery whilst my body decided to remind me unceasingly that COVID is basically the worst flu ever. Coughing, sputtering, hacking up my lungs, the works.

Thanks to this, I've been particularly antisocial and indeed rather quiet. Hopefully I'm on the mend for real this time. With month-long wait-times for official testing to know things like what variant, and a drought on home test kits, I'm likely to never know which of the multiple variants I've waded my way through, and, in all truth, as long as I survive it, I care not one whit which it might be.

To those whom I speak with, regularly or irregularly, please let me apologize for my protracted silence. It is by no means any indication of anyone else's behavior or indeed anything else, merely me being too ill to desire significant contact. Hopefully this will be rectified soon.

With much love to all of you, my friends one and all,

The somewhat still-ill vixen of nine (still fluffy!) tails,

Mika