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Hey, everybody. Long time no see.

So yeah. You're probably wondering where I've been and what's been up. Unless you're following me on one of the other million sites I lurk on (hey look, I added more links to those up above!) it must seem like I've fallen off of the edge of the world.

Quite honestly, things have been kind of rough. Finances, heath, creativity, they've all taken some pretty hard hits, and to top it off, there's been one fairly significant tech "crash" since the last time I've been on here. Y'all remember - I don't blame you in the least if you don't, it's been a long time - the last Journal entry I posted, and it seemed like I was getting all of my personal drama squared away so I could start working on strips and such again? Yeah, well. Not long after that I busted out my external hard drive, where I store all of the raws  and stock images for Star Trek Teenies, to do some clean up, reorganize and otherwise get myself prepped up to work on them again. Surprise of surprises when half of my folders had locked down. Completely. Including my picture files.

I must have worked on that hard drive for 4 hours before finally giving up in utter frustration. I'm not tech savvy and this was way above my pay grade to even figure out what had happened, let alone fix it and recover all of my files. Numerous net searches and a panicked twitter session with my techy older brother did not help in the least. So, all of my previous STT strips were lost, the raws were lost, the stock images were lost and I would either have to re-create them or scrounge them off of the strips already posted... it freaked me the hell out and I basically shut down for awhile.

Now, the good news is that the next time I dared to try opening the external drive, for some reason it behaved perfectly. I could get into the pic folders, and everything was right where it should be. Needless to say, I instantly set about backing up every single file on the damn thing so this wouldn't happen again. I know, it's something I should have been doing anyway, I've been using computers long enough and experienced enough crashes and comp deaths to know better, but eh. We all make mistakes, right?

Anyway, that was some time ago. And that was only the tech side of things that have been going on, really. In the time since I've last been here, all I've really been able to scrounge the energy for to concentrate on has been some pretty mindless scrolling / reblogging on tumblr and a pretty intense writing schedule. And when I say intense, I mean mind meltingly so. Think my last NaNoWriMo was impressive, guess what I got for Camp NaNo in April. Over 75K. And yet, somehow, I'm still behind on the things that I have committed myself to. It's pretty pathetic.

I'd like to say that I've been making major progress in all of my artsy projects, and that I've got tons of STT strips, sketches and cosplay built up and ready for posting, and to give definite dates on when things will be popping up... but I don't. What I do have is a handful of scripts for STT and some (a lot) of backlogged fics. The workaholic in me is incredibly disappointed.

However, I have have been reorganizing some things, which will hopefully make projects easier to get to and finish. Fingers are crossed, I just need to keep up the energy / enthusiasm for everything I should be getting around to. (And not add more to my already huge list, but that's a losing battle right there.)

For everyone who has added me to their Watch, commented or sent me notes which I've been gone, THANK YOU! I make an effort to actually reply to everyone, so if you've commented even a year ago and I haven't replied you, I will be doing so soon. Yeah, it's been that long since I've checked my inbox here, it's insane.

So, with that, I hope y'all are doing well, expect a lot of fic posts in the next few weeks, since that's all I've got to offer just now, and I hope to catch up with everyone!