And there's a host of reasons, but they're reasons that really should merit posting, because posting is good. Not posting, on the other hand, is bad. Or, probably, becomes more of a normal and saddening feature of the LJ landscape, considering that for a while I very nearly lived on LJ.

And now, there's my whole course thingy, with the books and the shelves and all things else. And, more importantly, a new and huggable and kissable and utterly fantastic partnerperson who's incredibly incredible and makes me go all melty-squeegasm inside, outside, and all places between.

So, I'm still not dead1. Not by any means. In fact, quite the opposite, which still unfairly slays my LJing tendencies, and this saddens me greatly. And, presumably, more folk besides.

Not that I think people would be happy if I weren't still alive and well. I like being alive. There's a list of people as long as my leg2 who'd be happy with my continued living, which leads to new possibilities in the field of skirts made from recycled lists of people who like the idea of being alive to wear them. So, yes. All my deaths are little ones4.

And I really, really, would like to post things - just occasionally - that don't need to serve as notices to my flist that nothing tragic, dangerous, hazardous or horrendous has happened to me, especially not things that cause loss of life, limbs, lunch or livejournals.

So, still trying to get life back to a semblance of normal, but without wanting my newfound squeeeee to go away. And, really, it'll be well worth the attempt - I miss my journal, and I miss reading page after page of entries while thinking "but it was only a few hours", and I miss all of you. And, also, I kinda miss writing in gratuitous footnotes6. And I'll have to come up with fantastically witty things to say, so I can try to get my rule back.

But, until then, it doesn't mean I'm unavailable to the webbernets. Rather the opposite - feel free, one and all, to send email, or to send those LJ prod thingies, or to comment on old entries to say things like "hey, we haven't heard from you for weeks", because that kinda helps. And, I'll try to be better about being on my IM thingies, the details for which are helpfully listed in my userinfo, because I am just. that. nice™7.

So, yes. I live. Bwah.
  1. Or, true to form, I still aten't dead.
  2. Both of which - I might add - are the opposite of short.3
  3. Kind of on the subject (ha!), it just happens I'm all of an inch shorter than Nathan Fillion. Shiny.
  4. Because, obviously, you all really needed to know that. Though, in all fairness, I imagine it might bring a kind of reflected happiness to someone's day, possibly5 in the form of a pretend headline. 'Once-Upon-A-Time-Kind-Of-Prolific LJer Has Supply Of Sex', they'd say, if all the world were so odd as the kinds of things that wander freely in my head whenever my imagination leaves the gate open.
  5. i.e., likely not.
  6. Made you look.
  7. Nice™ levels may vary. Nice™ not available in all locations. Nice™ redeemable on receipt of Civil© from others. Nice™ subject to availability restrictions. Nice™ is not water soluble. Nice™ has been independently tested and found safe for both internal and external use. Nice™ does not constitute professional dietary, medical, legal, financial, philosophical, philological, inspirational, adjectival or any other form of advice. Except maybe philological. And adjectival. And please, please, don't ever ask for advice on writing disclaimers.8
  8. Or on writing short, succinct and sensible footnotes.9
  9. Or on avoiding self-referential footnotes.9

Date: 2006-08-23 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
Made you look.

You did. *nods*

Welcome back!

Date: 2006-08-23 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Thanks, but it's not the coming back that's the tricky part. It's always the staying back. Do you have any good advice on not overcommitting time until there's none left for yourself?

Date: 2006-08-23 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
...I kinda have the opposite problem...

Date: 2006-08-24 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
Commit time to yourself.

Write it in your schedule.

Keep it as sacred as any other item.

Date: 2006-08-24 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
This would mean keeping a schedule. Which, come to think of it, would probably help in eleventy billion utterly fantastic ways.

Really, I need to learn to stop forgetting me when it comes to sorting out time for everything else I say that I'll do. Or I need my very own Princess of No.

...

So, what's your opinion on tiaras? :)

Date: 2006-08-24 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
Time Management is an awesome skill that will serve you for life.
It's also a skill I lack completely. But I advocate it a lot.

Mayhaps your girlfriend could be your Princess of No?

Tiaras, like all headwear... they can be elegant and flattering, or tacky and gaudy. It would really depend on the tiara, I think... and the wearer.

Date: 2006-08-24 10:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I feel your pain. Or, rather, I think I can squeeze in some sympathy sometime next Tuesday, I'll get back to you when I know if it'll be free.

Someone, as it were, set up us the clock.

Date: 2006-08-25 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
Right now my time is blissfully scheduled for me, and I don't have to think.

5am - wake up
5:30 - turn off second alarm
5:40 - get out of bed
5:50 - make lunch
6:00 - get dressed
6:10 - catch bus
7:20 - arrive at work
7:30 - start work
Noon - Lunchtime!
4:00 - finish work
5:30 - arrive home
5:35 - have a shower
5:50 - hop on intarwebz
10pm - bedtime!

The joys of manual labour - your work NEVER follows you home.
(Merely the trappings of it, like my hard hat and safety vest)

I have a small daytimer, which I could use to schedule things. But I don't. Instead I just keep track of my hours worked in it, so I can predict my paycheques.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Hello. *squish*

The last episode of season 1 of VM is tomorrow. Waiting? Not my thing at all, just now.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
At first I thought you meant that you weren't watching it. I got sad. But nevermind!

YAY!

Date: 2006-08-23 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I still have a couple of episodes to catch up on, but I'm going to do that when I get home from my one class which happens to be at a civilised hour of this morning. And then, nothing will keep me from the VMness.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alliancesjr.livejournal.com
Welcome back to the wonderful exciting world of tomorrow! It's always good to hear of good things in the lives of others (sex and otherwise).

Date: 2006-08-23 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Hoo-ray for the world of tomorrow. And hoo-ray for sex. And wheee for otherwise.

Also, yay for icons of beat-up law-breaking freighters, whether they be pieces of junk or pieces of fei-oo. Even though having your ship slandered in Mandarin is somewhat classier. Discuss.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alliancesjr.livejournal.com
There is no comparing the Falcon to Serenity. They are the two most badass ships that don't look like they should be holding together and yet somehow do.

Plus a Han/Mal snarkfest would be the hottest coolest hottest thing ever.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
And then they'd stomp off and fume about it for a bit, then run into each other again, and then Mal could teach Han to dance, and then they'd sort the whole thing out with hot passionate sex while Jayne and Chewie arm-wrestle. Or something like that.

Date: 2006-08-24 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
What about the Bebop, though?

Date: 2006-08-23 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Nice to hear from you again.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
It's nice to be heard from again. How's life been in the land of you?

Date: 2006-08-23 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Can't sleep, doctorate is eating me. Seriously, I looked up and it was August 23, and the last I remembered it was June.

Did get to read a few nice books and squish in a couple of beach trips, though, so can't complain too hard.

Date: 2006-08-23 10:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Eek. Eaten by doctorate sounds worse than being eaten by a diploma.

Still, mmm, books. I'm sure I'll get to be thoroughly sick of them eventually, and then I'll wake up from that and go 'squeee! books!' again.

Date: 2006-08-23 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leila82.livejournal.com
ZOMG I totally suspected the whole squee thing, and am so pleased with my psychic abilities and also yay you for having squee(!) in real life!! For that, you get a panda. In a hat.

Date: 2006-08-23 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Eee! Panda! In a hat!

Date: 2006-08-23 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shaysdays.livejournal.com
Get to work on that rule thing, baybeh!

Date: 2006-08-23 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
We'll see, we'll see.

Date: 2006-08-23 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herekittykitty.livejournal.com
oh em gee an Apathy!Post!

We missed you. :(

Date: 2006-08-23 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I've missed me, and I get me all of the time, except when my time is all for other stuff, which has been the last six months or so.

And so, um, Book icon! Yes.

Date: 2006-08-24 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
*squishyhugs*

I went to a book club meeting about Sabriel the other day, which reminded me of you and [livejournal.com profile] apathy_books and to ask you whether you've read Sir Thursday yet, and are you getting bored with the Keys to the Kingdom series yet? I am. It's getting too repetitive and formulaic for me.

Also, huzzah for having a partnerperson! I had my three year anniversary with my boything yesterday. We allegedly went to the beach, although there wasn't much beaching involved because it's, well, winter. There was more huddling in the cabin with the heater on, and getting annoyed at the neighbours for having their telly on very loud late at night.

Date: 2006-08-24 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
*hugsquishes*

I read Sir Thursday the day after it came out, and while it's fairly formulaic I don't really mind it as much as I might with other series. In a way, it's an inoffensive kind of formula that works with the concept of the setting.

Huzzah for three-year anniversaries! And, I suppose, for boythings, since you're into that. And huzzah for huddling with heaters. And beaches can be fun in winter, if your idea of fun on a beach is to go for a bit of a walk along it, especially with a partnerperson.

Date: 2006-08-24 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
I just wonder whether the formula will wear thin by the end of the series.

I would also be celebrating my fourth or fifth or somethingth anniversary with my girlpartnerperson ([livejournal.com profile] fiareynne), except we've forgotten when it is. Oopsie. (These things get confusing at times.)

I walked in the water last night. It was very cold. I could see boats (by 'boats' I mean 'a container ship and something that was possibly the Spirit of Tasmania'). And I had icecream!

Date: 2006-08-24 02:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Possibly, but then I can imagine people might've thought the same about GoF when it was all new and shiny. And, besides, I'll be getting the other three anyway, just so that I have the whole series.

Fourth and fifth anniversaries are, I suppose, fun too. Hopefully, I'll get to find out. :)

You walked in very cold water and had ice cream? Let me here assume that you chose to levy additional warmth from your boything afterward.

Also, yay boats; from a distance they're all the same. Well, until they hoist the jolly roger.

Date: 2006-08-24 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
NONE of the boats were pirate ships. I was VERY disappointed.

Date: 2006-08-24 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Well. Silly non-pirate boats, with their silly second-rate deck swabbing.

Date: 2006-08-24 03:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
Yes.

I want to know more about your partnerperson. Even if it is a paragraph of wibbling.

Date: 2006-08-24 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
So... what's she like?

(wow you're tall!)

Date: 2006-08-24 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I tried to type something useful here, but it melted into a stream of happy adjectives that eventually just sound like a paragraph-long squeegasm.

(Just a bit)

Date: 2006-08-24 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
And what's wrong with paragraph-long squeegasms?

Fine then, how did you meet her? That's bound to be more interesting, since finding and maintaining a girlfriend takes more time and effort than posting to LJ, and you don't have time to do the latter anymore ;)

(taller than me)

Date: 2006-08-24 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Honestly? Nothing at all is wrong with paragraph-long squeegasms. They're squeeful, and squeeful is fun.

There might be some story time later, but for now, I've got an assortment of other things to do. Homework things, funnily enough. Story comes after research.

(Would you like a phonebook to stand on?)

Date: 2006-08-24 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
Awww pooey. I have to wait another month to find out?

(How about just a pic of you. I've always been intensely curious)

Date: 2006-08-24 03:08 am (UTC)
ext_3472: Sauron drinking tea. (Default)
From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
Once more, with footnotes! Don't worry, we of teh intarwebs are patient... *ominous*

Date: 2006-08-24 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I've been on teh intarwebs since before you... well... I'm sure there's something. And my point was, the denizens of teh intarwebs are frequently not patient. Except for the patient ones.

That 'once more, with footnotes' gives me an interesting idea. This could be dangerous.

Date: 2006-08-24 10:26 am (UTC)
ext_3472: Sauron drinking tea. (Default)
From: [identity profile] maggiebloome.livejournal.com
I'm almost entirely sure I didn't make it up, but I can't remember where I heard it. It might have been somebody's journal title or something.

Date: 2006-08-24 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yobadself.livejournal.com
I'm sure you get this a lot, but your footnotes RULE! :D

Date: 2006-08-24 10:15 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-08-24 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raptor-au.livejournal.com
I'd make some smartypants joke here about how I'm excited about Apathy, but truth be told I'm just happy and relieved to see you post. I've missed your semiregular doses of fun.

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