Anyway, I broke down and bought a replacement box set for The Origin I-IV last week and I brought my BD-RW drive home from work to watch it with, so maybe I'll do one of my watch-threads on IV this holiday weekend. 👀✨

(I didn't completely forget I was doing that... about a year ago now (lol))

(What do people even do on IG? Should I just post pictures of my food? The books I'm reading? The things I drink at the bar? CD covers? I'm really very boring; I don't think there's really any need for anyone to look at my camera roll. Why is this how millennials interact?)

The last few times I've been out with people, I've been told I really *need* to do Instagram, so part of me is probably putting off getting back online because I just... don't wanna... (lol)

But I do want to have a social life in my city,, so I guess,,,!!

(I hate Facebook so gd much.)

So I've just been resting a lot lately. For me, dealing with health problems is ~mostly holing up at home when not working to try and reserve energy. But I hate not going outside, so I've been going a little stir-crazy. I'm doing okay again though, so I'm gonna try easing back into existing publicly

Conversely, I don't want to blow up at people because I'm Going Through It, so it's better if I disengage, I think.

I don't make money through social media, so I don't suffer concrete consequences for disappearing, but it makes me appreciate how much people who need SNS for survival must go through

It's nobody's fault! I just think people in general are really cavalier about some sensitive topics sometimes, and no amount of blocking keywords is ever going to hide 100% of it when some social ill that particularly Sets Me Off is the topic du jour.

I've been upset by the way national news has been covered and discussed recently, which is the main thing that caused me to want a hiatus from socials, but soon after that my health took a moderate dive and I've been 100% focused on dealing with that. I'm fine! Just tired, sore, and allergic.

This is my genuine advice to go to your nieces and nephews with: start dressing business casual young and don't disclose your age. I'm being extremely serious.

It's saved me so much grief.