I'm back. Whew.
Mar. 9th, 2004 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonThe fog has well and truly lifted, I believe. The fog in question being the one that's shrouded my head the last few ... months? Most of the winter, anyway, and it really bears no further morbid description because, borrrrr-ing. But it's kept me from writing, or connecting with people (if I seemed to be not all there at Escapade, it's because I was not all there), or doing much of anything.
Ever since last Saturday, though, I've felt lighter, clearer, able to make plans and act on them, energetic and cheerful. And this morning -- I was walking to work, crossing the Mississippi River, with the sun pouring down on me, headphones on and Dire Straits playing Tunnel of Love, which feels to me like a RayK-and-Stella song, feeling full of joyful energy, and I suddenly found myself plotting out, filling in, the RayK-and-Stella parts of the WIP, which has been sitting untouched since last November. And I think tonight I'll open it up and write a paragraph or two.
Who knows what that interlude was all about -- maybe I'm developing late-onset SAD, or maybe it just took that long to completely detox from nicotine and get my brain chemistry rebalanced. But, whatever. Glad it's over, glad to be back.
Ever since last Saturday, though, I've felt lighter, clearer, able to make plans and act on them, energetic and cheerful. And this morning -- I was walking to work, crossing the Mississippi River, with the sun pouring down on me, headphones on and Dire Straits playing Tunnel of Love, which feels to me like a RayK-and-Stella song, feeling full of joyful energy, and I suddenly found myself plotting out, filling in, the RayK-and-Stella parts of the WIP, which has been sitting untouched since last November. And I think tonight I'll open it up and write a paragraph or two.
Who knows what that interlude was all about -- maybe I'm developing late-onset SAD, or maybe it just took that long to completely detox from nicotine and get my brain chemistry rebalanced. But, whatever. Glad it's over, glad to be back.
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Date: 2004-03-09 08:52 am (UTC)I'm so glad you're feeling better.
Date: 2004-03-09 07:42 am (UTC)Tunnel of Love, huh? I've been thinking that, if I do another DS vid, it might have to be about RayK and Stella. Hmm...
Welcome back, Kat! I've missed you.
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Date: 2004-03-09 08:55 am (UTC)And thanks for the kind words; it feels good to be myself again.
"Blood on the Tracks"?
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Date: 2004-03-09 07:51 am (UTC)But, hey, you're feeling better just in time for ConneXions! Yay! {{hugs}}
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:50 am (UTC)And hey, am I remembering right that you're coming to Connexions this year? And I'll actually get to meet you? If so, most excellent!
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Date: 2004-03-09 08:34 am (UTC)And can I just take this moment to say how thrilled I am that you've quit? :)
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:55 am (UTC)And yeah, even though I was bumming smokes pretty freely at Escapade, I've neither had nor wanted one since I got back. So I think the addictive/compulsive element is gone for good, and if I can just avoid *buying* them, I'm going to be fine.
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Date: 2004-03-09 08:36 am (UTC)*smootch*
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:17 pm (UTC)Ahem. Thanks for your kind words, it's good to be back!
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Date: 2004-03-09 09:50 am (UTC)Glad you can poke your head out and see the sunshine!
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:19 pm (UTC)If this hits again next winter, I may try the full-spectrum lights and see if they do anything.
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:22 pm (UTC)Hope the trip to Texas goes well, and that you're back soon and safely!
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:25 am (UTC)Tunnel of Love, huh? Heh, I've always thought "Romeo and Juliet" from that same album was a Ray/Stella song. *g*
Can't wait to see you again at Connexions!
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:23 pm (UTC)And I am *so* looking forward to seeing you!
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:26 pm (UTC)(Or maybe I'm just going into a hypomanic phase. But then manics always seem to be *enjoying* themselves...)
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:18 am (UTC)Amazingly enough, I managed to discover and fall in love with due South while you were gone. *g* Feedback forthcoming.
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Date: 2004-03-09 03:36 pm (UTC)(This is a transparently manipulative ploy intended to impart the assumption that of *course* having fallen in love with the show you'll be writing in it in short order, eh? Eh?)
And thanks for the kind words of welcome--it's good to be back, and (bonus) not coughing my lungs out all day long.
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Date: 2004-03-10 06:57 am (UTC)And glad you're feeling better.
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Date: 2004-03-10 05:16 pm (UTC)Anyway. Odd thought segues regardless, glad to have you back!
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Date: 2004-03-11 08:19 am (UTC)(And I very much enjoyed getting to meet and talk with you at Escapade, even if you were fogbound the entire time.)