So, I've been incredibly inactive both here and on other accounts lately; pretty much all my FA time is spent doing administrative tasks, and I'm lucky to get one or two pictures of my ARPG horses posted in a week over on dA. There's a simple primary reason for this, which kind of avalanches into further reasons:

I've been suffering from depression and social anxiety for at least a year and a half, at this point. Between that and a chronic cold I've been carrying around for nine+ years or so (I wish I was exaggerating, but I've had this since I returned from living in the US early summer of '04), my energy reserves are severely limited. If I leave the house at all, to see my therapist, to buy groceries, whatever, I'm usually pretty much out for the rest of the day. Friday I baked a peach pie with my housemate's visiting girlfriend, and after that and running out to get ice cream to eat with the cake, I was walking around the rest of the day a zombie, about half awake.

I can't get started on things for the life of me; if I do get up to start on a task, unless someone's there to remind me half the time I forget what I'm doing before I even get started. I can answer trouble tickets because it's a very structured task, but it's a crapshoot whether I get anything else at all done. I'm just too tired to hold on to my thoughts long enough to do anything productive with them, most of the time. Pair this with the fact that I do have work to do (in fact should be working right now but that'd require getting out of bed...), and I'm not really in a good place to do even half of what I want to get done - I've not even started on my first reading assignment for my translation class this semester!

 ICQ is returning, I just can't say when.  veritas has been scripting ahead, and I've got one page inked ready to have pencil lines erased and get colored, whenever I have the time and energy for it. Hopefully there'll be a lull after my current batch of work in which I feel sufficiently well to git'er done, or my therapist will help me find a strategy that helps me focus without expending ridiculous amounts of energy on doing so.

After writing this journal entry, I kind of feel like a nap, that's how little energy I've got.

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On an unrelated note, if you are a writer, or know a writer who'd like help touching up their stories before posting, throw  veritas a line. I have it on good authority that he'll be opening up proofreading services of some kind soon. It's not a charity, but whatever he ends up charging it'll be worth it, I promise. The man is a freaking wizard with words, twice published, and helped me out when I was writing my Bachelor's essay in English Lit. And if you don't write, go check his stuff out, because whatever you think of furry fiction in general, it's worth a reead.