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Like many people with depression, winter is a tricky time of year for me. Now that November's here, bringing darkness to the northern hemisphere, it's difficult to see the coming months as more than an obstacle to overcome, and once again I find myself wondering why exactly it is we don't hibernate as a species. In lieu of that I've got a range of tactics to start implementing - sun lamps and health professionals and friends and endless cups of tea. Whether all of that is enough to prevent the onset altogether remains to be seen.

( discussion of depression )

Questions from pocky_slash:

( questions! spoilers for Doctor Who 6x07 )

From lovelythings:

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Let me know if you'd like some questions of your own!

I'm not making any new year's resolutions this year, not now. Honestly, in January all I'm really aiming to do is pass my exams and survive until spring, it's not the best time to be worrying about my new exercise routine or whatever. (I would like to read some more books this year, though. After I graduate! Which is a strange notion.)

What I do like about New Year is the sense of a chapter closing, a moment of reflection and then moving on. This is what happened last year; what's next?

As for what happened last year - well, I was ill. Every time I look back over the last 12 months, it's a fact that colours everything. Here's the summer, where I was better, here's the autumn where it all fell apart again. This year was punctuated by bright periods of happiness, and I'm grateful for that, but they could only do so much the combat the weeks I spent pinned down by depression, like my own personal, inescapable gravity that showed no signs of letting go.

( cut for discussion of depression and substance abuse that may be triggering )

You know, I was going to find a neater way to segue into this, but I'm running out the door and I've got nothing - have a happy new year, everyone. May 2010 bring you good fortune, peace, love in any of its many guises, and above all joy.

I am at that stage of packing where I am utterly convinced that I have forgotten something of vital importance to the mission for my holiday, which is a sure sign that it is time for me to go to bed. (I must have everything important! My iPod is fully charged and loaded with new music and podfic, I have downloaded the story notes for the super sekrit special project I am working on - oh, and I have clothes and my toothbrush and stuff, too. *g*)

I shall be in New York for the next week, wandering around and seeing sights and nomming on food, also catching up with some Stateside fandomers. :D

Vid rec spam will resume next weekend, I am sure.

I keep trying to write a post about Battlestar Galactica, because I want to talk about it, and how it pains me tremendously but also I can't let it go. I'm trying to work how best to explain the former, and I'm still not sure why the latter is the case. All I can really tell you is that I'm clipping episodes for vidding and I keep crying at random screenshots of characters giving DRADIS readings and other such mundane moments. :/

ANYWAY. Let us move to happier subjects! Hi guys, I'm super excited that there are so many people coming over to Dreamwidth right now. I'm enjoying watching all of this unfold. And while I still don't know where I see myself based long-term, it was nice to have this place as a reassuring background presence when I read things like this. An anti-gay marriage ad has surfaced on the rota of LJ's ads -- Marta, one of the LiveJournal staffers, is to be very much commended for jumping in quickly and directly and sorting it out, but it highlights a basic problem that LJ don't have all that much control, apparently, over the content of their ads. It gives a certain extra bigotry-flavoured spice to checking your flist in the morning, you know?

Okay, that wasn't especially happy either. Take three! I thought maybe I would post some sort of introductory-type thing for anyone that's new around here.

( ten things about me )

If you would like to introduce yourself here, please do!