Cocooning
I am deeply immersed in what is becoming my traditional late January/early February slump. (I don't want to call it a depression, because that's just too dramatic and overkill for what this is.) I thought I had it beat this year, but a couple of things that buoyed me through January have fallen through in the last week, and that's left me in a bit of a fog. One of those somethings was the perfect job — it was like someone in a great, young, energetic company sat down and looked at what my skills are and what I like to do and then wrote a job description for me. That's been the biggest disappointment.

On top of that, I went several days last week with no e-mail access (Comcast's fault), and as soon as that was fixed on Friday, my computer just about ground to a halt that no amount of Disk Doctoring or permissions repairing would fix. The best I could figure, a corrupted preferences file was causing the problem, but I was having trouble tracking down which one. Since it had to be done anyway, I just did a full backup, wiped the internal hard drive, and reinstalled fresh copies of everything. It took most of the weekend to get the essentials up and running properly. I hate doing that in the middle of a project, but in this case there just wasn't a choice. I still have to figure out where all my e-mail addresses went.

So, if I owe you e-mail, please be patient. I'm working hard to catch up in between chunks of time spent finishing a project and wallowing in movies. (Really good movies, for the most part. Garden State was simply wonderful.)

Now I feel like I'm starting to get bronchitis.

But 2005 hasn't been all that bad. I have my vacation to look forward to (12 days and counting). I have fantastic and supportive and generous friends and family who put up with my mood swings. I've sold some jewelry. I have some solid job leads, both full time and freelance. And at heart I'm still an optimist.
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