I found myself.

Okay. I know I disappeared, but...

Went to help a friend move into a new place and wound up spending from 11 am to 8 pm there (dear God I still don't know how we got the box spring upstairs), came home, and have been cleaning all weekend.

And I'm leaving to go meet friends for the fireworks shortly. And I still have more chores to do to get caught up.

Calling a general hiatus from the Internet for a few days while I Get Stuff Done. Sorry, Mom, the next part of the San Diego journal will have to wait. The kitchen, the office, moving help and certain cookouts take precedence. ;)

Where have I been the last two weeks? WORK IS INSANE. That is all. At least, according to everyone I've asked, this kind of chaos is NOT normal for even most emergency releases.

Also, yes, I'm on Facebook. Because this week's assignment involves joining a social networking site (specifics should be posted later) and work is not blocking Facebook yet.

Also, I read the last Blue Beetle, and ( it makes me kind of sad to type that. (EPIC SPOILERS) )

Damn, it's 10 already. Oops.

Also, why it's taking three weeks for LiveJournal to fix comment tracking is beyond my comprehension. Then again, that's what happens when you cut your staff short. *sigh*

I'm home from the Gathering in one piece.

Am hungry.

Have no food in fridge save the leftovers Mom donated (♥ thanks Mom).

THIS MUST BE RECTIFIED NOW.

More later.

Not dead. Not totally crazy. But making myself buckle down on the final.

Plan to post an update/explanation on Wednesday. Honest.

More importantly:

Happy birthday, violetbloom!

Okay, this morning's pity party has come and gone. (Reason why is f-locked and whiny and RL-related and no threat to life, liberty or sanity.)

Having said that, I know a lot of people are waiting for me to follow through on: RP stuff, beta comments, reviews, memes (hey sinanju I didn't forget I've just been blanking on it), and everything else. So to all of you: I'm going to be very slow in getting back to you this week. Have a midterm in Applications of Intelligent Systems next week, and the pity party's forced me to re-evaluate a couple of things. I will get back to everyone, it's just going to take me this side of forever to do so.

Also, I can't update it to reflect this til I get off work, but I'm finally going to stop taking e-mail recipes for the Jelly Belly page. I plan to put up ALL the recipes I've received, but starting today I'm not taking any more recipes. My entire website needs to be gutted, in point of fact. God knows when I'm going to do that, but - it hasn't undergone any sort of major overhaul since 2000, and you can really tell.

Anyway, stuff to do.

Okay, so, I have officially FAILED at the PW playthrough. Aside from that first case, I honestly haven't had the time or been able to justify taking the time to pick up my DS at all, much less replay any of the cases these past two weeks. The public posts that you've seen the past 2 weeks? All the posts I've made here, period.

Work has been non-stop crazy, and school... well, I've been putting in more hours than I should in trying to get assignments done. The last homework should NOT have taken a total of 12 hours to get done (especially since half of that was spent trying to find a real-world case of search engine manipulation or something done to prevent it - everything's theoretical and none of the papers let you know if it's been done in practice).

I'm not complaining. Things haven't been bad, just... ridiculously busy. I need to reorganize my time management again because this semester's class is nowhere NEAR as structured as the last two and estimating how much time deliverables will take isn't as easy. Work is also weird, but I'll get into that later.

I have been using the "not dead" tag WAY TOO MUCH LATELY.

I've disappeared off the face of LJ for maybe the last two weeks, I know. I haven't been ignoring people, I haven't checked the friends list. Which is why I didn't comment to posts that I really should have.

I have no good excuse for this.