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5 years ago
First, fellow fur Mage Omega is taking TF sketch commissions. He's in a tough spot and any business would help him out.
Read more here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38500611/
As far as journaling goes, I haven't done much of it in the past while. I'm the kind of person who exposes himself in fits and spurts. I will want to post a journal about something, then decide it's not significant enough or it reveals too much of my personal life. Then at certain points I decide to throw together a big journal with updates and go overboard with details and try to justify that by tying it all up into some kind of life lesson.
This journal won't be anything like that. It's just a personal update, with quick looks into a bunch of topics.
I'm happy to report that I've been in good physical health, as well as my immediate family. We had some scares, but the only illness anyone has come down with thus far this year has been the common cold. Mental health has not fared as well, but I've resumed sessions with my therapist in the last few months and things quickly started to turn around. I'd hardly claim to be doing "great," but I'll settle for "I have an optimistic thought at least once per day."
I've socially distanced as much as possible. I rarely see family members, and when I do, it's outside our houses. I really miss board gaming with my local group. We were close to finishing our campaign of Betrayal Legacy, and have been accumulating more games in the interim that we hope to play one day, when COVID is behind us. We've made some attempts at virtual gaming, but one thing or another makes those sessions an extreme rarity.
The people I'm in contact with the most these days are the ones who are probably reading this journal right now. IMs and voice chats with friends in the furry/TF community have provided much companionship, comfort, and entertainment.
Although even then, I don't spend a lot of time online chatting. I've always preferred solo activities, whether it's a video game or binge watching "Star Trek" or drawing comics. As you can see from my gallery, I've gotten back into the swing of making UTC. It was very hard to pick it up again, as it always is after a hiatus, but there has been something about this story, and this moment in time, that has gotten me fired up and putting more energy into the comic than I have in the last five years.
I have ideas for TF art, as always, although I'm not sure when to say to expect non-UTC content appearing here again. I'm spending most of my creative energy on that, but the current chapter is almost over and I haven't decided if I'm going to jump right into the next one (I'm excited for what's coming down the pike in this series) or if I'll find some justifiable distractions in drawing standalone TF sequences. I do hope this streak of artistic energy lasts a while, whatever results from it.
Job-wise, I consider myself very fortunate. I've been working from home since March and haven't experienced any financial difficulties. The money I've been saving while stuck at home has been going to various charities and individuals. There has been one major, consistent drawback, though. Our company is in a hiring freeze, but our workload is only getting larger, which means everyone in my department has been shouldering more responsibilities while having to cope with the limitations of working from home. My biggest fear right now isn't that I or someone I care about will come down with COVID. It's that I or someone I work with will suffer a breakdown. I'm doing my best to give support to my team, both as a relief worker and as a source of reassurance. There isn't much more any of us can do, sadly. We just try to endure, like everyone has been trying to endure, throughout this whole sad year.
I'm counting down the days until my state opens early voting. I plan to cast my vote in person, due to the issues with the postal service, but as a secondary measure, I did apply for an absentee ballot and will drop it off at the polling site's collection box if the place is too crowded to go inside.
Lately, to help me unwind no matter what I'm doing, there are two soundtracks I've been listening to on loop: the "Tetris Effect" soundtrack by Hydelic, and Neil Cicierega's Mouth albums. One is a sea of tranquility and the other a twisted nightmare of pop culture, but they both give me exactly what I need right now: a consistent mood that I can deeply connect with to find stability.
I suppose that wraps up this journal. Stay safe and stay good, everyone. Call your closest friends and/or relatives and tell them you love them.
Read more here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38500611/
As far as journaling goes, I haven't done much of it in the past while. I'm the kind of person who exposes himself in fits and spurts. I will want to post a journal about something, then decide it's not significant enough or it reveals too much of my personal life. Then at certain points I decide to throw together a big journal with updates and go overboard with details and try to justify that by tying it all up into some kind of life lesson.
This journal won't be anything like that. It's just a personal update, with quick looks into a bunch of topics.
I'm happy to report that I've been in good physical health, as well as my immediate family. We had some scares, but the only illness anyone has come down with thus far this year has been the common cold. Mental health has not fared as well, but I've resumed sessions with my therapist in the last few months and things quickly started to turn around. I'd hardly claim to be doing "great," but I'll settle for "I have an optimistic thought at least once per day."
I've socially distanced as much as possible. I rarely see family members, and when I do, it's outside our houses. I really miss board gaming with my local group. We were close to finishing our campaign of Betrayal Legacy, and have been accumulating more games in the interim that we hope to play one day, when COVID is behind us. We've made some attempts at virtual gaming, but one thing or another makes those sessions an extreme rarity.
The people I'm in contact with the most these days are the ones who are probably reading this journal right now. IMs and voice chats with friends in the furry/TF community have provided much companionship, comfort, and entertainment.
Although even then, I don't spend a lot of time online chatting. I've always preferred solo activities, whether it's a video game or binge watching "Star Trek" or drawing comics. As you can see from my gallery, I've gotten back into the swing of making UTC. It was very hard to pick it up again, as it always is after a hiatus, but there has been something about this story, and this moment in time, that has gotten me fired up and putting more energy into the comic than I have in the last five years.
I have ideas for TF art, as always, although I'm not sure when to say to expect non-UTC content appearing here again. I'm spending most of my creative energy on that, but the current chapter is almost over and I haven't decided if I'm going to jump right into the next one (I'm excited for what's coming down the pike in this series) or if I'll find some justifiable distractions in drawing standalone TF sequences. I do hope this streak of artistic energy lasts a while, whatever results from it.
Job-wise, I consider myself very fortunate. I've been working from home since March and haven't experienced any financial difficulties. The money I've been saving while stuck at home has been going to various charities and individuals. There has been one major, consistent drawback, though. Our company is in a hiring freeze, but our workload is only getting larger, which means everyone in my department has been shouldering more responsibilities while having to cope with the limitations of working from home. My biggest fear right now isn't that I or someone I care about will come down with COVID. It's that I or someone I work with will suffer a breakdown. I'm doing my best to give support to my team, both as a relief worker and as a source of reassurance. There isn't much more any of us can do, sadly. We just try to endure, like everyone has been trying to endure, throughout this whole sad year.
I'm counting down the days until my state opens early voting. I plan to cast my vote in person, due to the issues with the postal service, but as a secondary measure, I did apply for an absentee ballot and will drop it off at the polling site's collection box if the place is too crowded to go inside.
Lately, to help me unwind no matter what I'm doing, there are two soundtracks I've been listening to on loop: the "Tetris Effect" soundtrack by Hydelic, and Neil Cicierega's Mouth albums. One is a sea of tranquility and the other a twisted nightmare of pop culture, but they both give me exactly what I need right now: a consistent mood that I can deeply connect with to find stability.
I suppose that wraps up this journal. Stay safe and stay good, everyone. Call your closest friends and/or relatives and tell them you love them.
Not sure what else really needs saying, but I felt I should say that much, at least. Stay safe, CK.
I applied for an absentee ballot myself but it hasn't shown up so I can't mail it back if I do end up getting it but I can drop it off.
On the brighter side that’s great that going back on therapy has been helping your out and I’m gonna vote in person and get a flu shot at the same time so we be as productive as we can be.
From one stressed worker to another we made it this far with our work, we can go the rest of the distance and take on anything in front of us. ^.=.^