i've been gone but i've been up to stuff and things

1. If it looks from my journal like I haven't been coping super well with the loss of my cat...yes. I'm not in some kind of deep well of sadness most of the time, I'm just functioning at like 60% power. Which is an improvement from November and December, certainly. Also, my pre-existing enthusiasms all got sucked right out of me and I've had to build new ones:
( much more cheerful than the above would suggest! )