魔法少女プリティジューリャ

I've been thinking of writing more long-form essays and stuff, and leaving Twitter, which I rarely write much on anyway. After a frustratingly long convalescence, I'm starting to feel like I can be more active in life.

I'm also considering importing my old LJ entries into this journal, because I don't know how much longer it will be possible to get that data out of LiveJournal... I don't know if this is going to cause a bunch of people to get a bunch of notifications from this account or not. So, if you just got a notification from me... this is why.

So, I finally created a Dreamwidth... I didn't make the jump from LJ back in 2010~2011 with everyone else due to life circumstances (which I wasn't blogging about at all at the time either). I withdrew from the world, and I'm only just barely starting to catch up with things now.

I was reading back through my old LJ, and thought to myself: "This Foxgrrl person is really awesome! I wonder whatever happened to her..." (Yeah, I know what happened...)

In other news, I had another biopsy yesterday, and anxiously await the results. I'm not supposed to exercise or lift object for at least a week. I'm not actually feeling any pain at all, and I'm not sure if that's just because it's not above the constant background level of pain that I have.

I should upload some usericons and stuff...

I caught a sinus-cold/flu/infection/something; It seems that I only post on LJ when I'm ill. [Probably because it's the only time when I have time.] Well, actually that's not entirely true. Other than a few outings, I've been being a hermit the last few months. I'm just emotionally burnt out, or it's seasonal depression, or (as I believe) hibernation. (Seriously, when the weather is cold, I just want to eat lots of food and sleep.)

Speaking of food. I've been completely vegetarian so far all year¹. Not quite vegan, because I've had eggs twice, and dairy a few times (which I really shouldn't as my body doesn't react to dairy well). Mostly I wanted to see if I could do it, and it's something I've been considering for a long time. My diet was already mostly vegetables anyway for the last few years, so I just stopped eating chicken and fish last month. I've noticed the more raw vegetables I eat, the healthier and more energetic I feel. Aside from this cold/flu/thing I just caught, I've been feeling very physically healthy for the previous month. No so mentally healthy however; I've just really been wanting to be alone for a bit. I need to pull myself and my life back together, figure out who I am, who I want to be, and what I want to do. (And I can't really be myself when other people are around.)

I'm also not flying out to DC for Shmoocon this weekend. The last time I flew with a sinus infection I ended up in the ER with a ruptured sinus cavity. (It was one of those, "Why am I coughing up blood?" situations. Not fun.)

And speaking of conferences. I'm giving a talk at PH-Neutral in May. It'll be something interesting about the PDF format, and the horrible things you can do with it. And I haven't heard back yet to know if I'm speaking at CSW this year or not. (It would be on the [approximately] twelve Acrobat 0-days in the last [approximately] twelve months.) I'll probably drop by the RSA Expo for a day too. If anyone wants free Expo passes I've got a marketing code for one.

(Also for those that know, I've gotten that big financial problem sorted out, and even got a refund.)

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¹ I should go have a steak to celebrate this achievement!

It's warm and sunny, and the birds are singing, and the air is filled with butterflies, and it smells like flowers and pacific redwood forest. Everything is beautiful and amazing. I've been waiting a long time to say this.