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[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Alright guys, real talk for a second. I've got a work meeting on Friday (1/31) that I'm really nervous about. I might lose my job, but if I don't, I'll get a lot of work dumped on me for no extra pay. Either way, not a good meeting. My anxiety is having a blast with this entire situation, and it's affecting my muse, focus, creativity, etc.

I hate to do this because I've been skipping these blogs a lot, but I'm going to skip them this Weds (1/29) and again next week. This week is because my muse for my RE characters is so low, it's like pulling teeth to write for them. I'll be writing on other blogs that come easier to me this week to be kind to my own mental health. Next week I'll skip because Tues-Weds (2/4-2/5) I'll be grading hundreds of forum assignments. I know I've been so sparsely here lately, but it's just a bad time with work, combined with everything always happening on or interfering with Wednesdays for me for some reason.

I anticipate being back here on 2/12. I'll make every effort to do that because then I'm grading again on the 19th. My boss changed the forums assignments with very little notice before the start of the semester, so all my spreadsheets, grading rubrics, and feedback templates that make everything quick and streamlined? Garbage. I have to redo them all from scratch. So that's why every time one of these assignments is due, I'll need extra time to deal with them.

If anyone decides they'd rather not write with me anymore because my activity is so low, I would completely understand. For those who decide to stick with me, I promise I'm not giving up on my RE blogs, it's just a lull while I sort some things out with work. Thank you for your patience and understanding, I really do appreciate it.

See everyone back here on 2/12!

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Rebagling over here because some of this applies to this blog as well.

{out of smokes} Just some feelings tonight, below the cut. No point to it, just... me sharing my thoughts while I feel a bit pensive.

I'm feeling so soft about Carlos x Alice, and I've been missing the movies a lot lately. When I think about how much time and work I put into developing Carlos and Matt/Nemesis and the movie world in general, writing huge metas and AUs and all sorts of things, it makes me feel like I've fallen out of touch with it now. I used to be more immersed in it, but I've gotten away from it in recent years. I write almost exclusively crossover and game-verse things here and on Nemesis' blog, and don't get me wrong, I love that too, but the movie verse was always my strong area and what I preferred and I've just kindof let it get away from me. That makes me sad.

I know that I'm one of a very small subset of people in the RE fandom that actually likes the Anderson films, though, and maybe that's why I've branched out to write Carlos in other worlds/fandoms or to write his game verse which I'm really not as familiar with at all, because I know movie-based threads will be few and far between. I get that, I do, but I used to write a lot more movie-verse things on here in past years and I miss it so much.

For anyone who writes crossover or game-verse things with me on here, please don't think I dislike that, that's not what I'm saying. I'm more saying that I'm not sure at what point those threads became all I do on these blogs or when I let my own personal favorite verses to write in on this and Nemmy's blog just kindof fall by the wayside, but I guess I just realized now that that's exactly what I've done. And it bothers me a little, because I used to have such fun writing in movie verses and fleshing out various aspects of them.

*shrugs* Like I said, no point to this, just sharing. I guess I'm having a pensive night, heh. I'm also sad because I thought RE: Extinction was on TV tonight and I was looking forward to watching it, but I screwed up and it was actually on last night. It's not currently free on any streaming service I have (seriously, screw streaming platforms that make you pay for movies again after already paying to subscribe to the whole service, like wtf even is that, Prime I'm looking at you), and my own DVD of it seems to have gotten corrupted or damaged because it won't play anymore. So I missed a chance to see it again, and I haven't in a while, and that sucks, heh.

It's not nearly as bad an issue with Matt's/Nemesis' blog as it is here, for some reason. Matt's and Nemmy's voices seem to stay pretty constant most of the time, even when they're in a crossover verse or outside the canon of the movies. But I do still miss writing them opposite other canon movie muses and exploring the "what-ifs" of the canon plot. Carlos, though, has really started slipping for me as far as voice, and that's been bugging me a lot lately.

I guess my issue with only writing game- and crossover verse threads is that my original voice for movie-verse Carlos feels like it's no longer there. Writing him almost always in situations in which he's outside his own canon world/universe or writing his dialog in a game-verse (which, if you know movie Carlos and game Carlos, you know they speak and act very differently) makes me feel like I'm actually not hitting any voice of his correctly. I feel like I'm writing some strange amalgam of movie verse, game verse, and my own poor-sounding fudging, haha, and not hitting any one of them correctly. That's really starting to irritate me as a writer. I hold myself to very high standards when writing a canon muse and once I feel like I'm no longer hitting the mark properly, I start to lose muse for that character.

Some of this is my fault, I know, for not keeping up with the games. I was an oldschool player in the 90s and early 2000s, and I've played the RE3 remake, but I still haven't gotten around to playing anything past RE5 or the RE2 remake. And I feel like the fandom for RE now is 90% about the remakes and RE7&8, which is mostly stuff I haven't played. So I've fallen out of touch with the direction the fandom has gone in recent years, and even though I try to barely keep up by reading wikis and things, some of it I don't want to read because I do still intend to play the games and don't want them 100% spoiled, as is the case with RE7&8. Or Village or whatever they're called, see I'm so out of touch that I don't even know, heh.

So... throwing a canon character from RE7&8 at movie verse Carlos, which has happened a number of times... is just... how do I square that? They're so different, not just character wise but canon wise, like the viruses are all different, the rules have changes, there are new creatures, new families, new agencies/organizations... that neither I nor Carlos knows anything about. Or Matt/Nemmy either, for that matter. So my clueless ass is fumbling around in the dark, knowing nothing about anything, trying my best not to disappoint my writing partners, and failing miserably, heh. I hate not writing from a place of solid knowledge of my muse and the world their in. It makes my writing short, simplistic, stilted, and frankly, bad. Then I end up dropping threads I just have no clue what to do with, not intentionally, but because I keep staring at them and trying to reply but not feeling informed enough and being afraid of saying something wrong/stupid.

The last time I started feeling this way, like I was losing the feel and voice of the original muse, I put my RE blogs all on hiatus for a few years. I really don't want to do that, because I write with amazing people on here and I am enjoying the threads that I have, I just wish that I could also have movie Carlos be more of a presence here, on a blog that was originally meant to only be exclusively for that version of him in the first place. I wish I could return to that original voice, at least some of the time. Not sure how to accomplish that, though.

And with Matt/Nemmy, I just wish I could have more movie-plot threads, not necessarily following the plot exactly, but man did I have so much fun back in the day exploring all the "what-if" situations for if things had been different or if Nemesis had survived beyond where he died in canon and ended up in the canon of the later movies. I really wish I could have what I write now AND also get back the movie stuff and the original feel of the muses too, but I'm just not sure that's possible anymore.

*sighs* Well, if you made it this far, thank you for bothering to read, I really do appreciate it. I just kindof felt like I had to get this out of my system before I could starting writing tonight. And again, please don't think I'm unhappy with what I currently have, this isn't a callout post, I'm not directing this at anyone... it's more just expressing my own feelings of disenchantment with how I've just kindof passively let my muses' voices slip in the past maybe two years. But writing this all out did help and I feel ready to write now, so thank you again to anyone who bothered to read this far. And thanks to everyone who does write with me on these two blogs. You're all amazing, and I would never have had these blogs for as long as I have without all my amazing partners. =)

[freewillacquired]

PSA: Some important OOC things I need my RP partners to know

{out of mutations} Hello, everyone. I was just made aware by a (now former) friend that I unintentionally hurt them very badly to the point of them ceasing to write with me and to block me. That is absolutely their prerogative, and I don’t blame them at all for doing so, nor do I bear them any ill will for their choice. Everyone needs to cultivate their own safe spaces on this site and to do what is best for their own mental health.

However, the points that they raised in their final message to me were important and very much opened my eyes to how careless I’ve been with how I’ve conducted myself as an rper and a blogger, and as a friend in general. It also made me aware that things that I’ve been trying to handle on my own offline and to not let affect how I run my blogs or manage friendships… are things that I really need to make my friends and rp partners aware of, because they are having clear consequences.

You all deserve to understand how I work as an online person you connect with, so that you can each make individual choices on whether or not you wish to continue writing with me or interacting through messages in the future. I’ll place this below a cut, and if you read all of it, I thank you for your time.

I mean for this simply to be an informative post that will explain a little bit about what I’ve been going through lately and how it is affecting my ability to function online. Life has gotten very crazy for me, I am having memory problems, and I have way too much activity/muses/blogs. All of these things together have created some problems with how I interact with folks on this site, and so I want to explain a little so you all understand. If, after reading this, you decide that I am too high maintenance for you, that I can’t give you the level of writing or messaging interaction that you prefer, or if you have any other issues with what I say, I fully understand and support any decision you make going forward. I hope that by beieng a bit embarrassingly candid that I can prevent what I inadvertently did to my friend from ever happening again, because I feel absolutely horrible about it. Alright, let’s get into this.

I don’t go looking for new people to interact with on any of my blogs anymore. I’ve stopped following new people unless we actually start writing together, I never message new people because of my anxiety, and I don’t want to attract more activity because I’m not managing what I have now well at all. The past few years of my life have been disastrous for many reasons (work, family, health, etc.), and I am looking to downsize muses and blogs, so I don’t reach out to new people anymore. If they reach out to me, I do my best to accommodate them, because I have never been good at saying no or disappointing people as a consequence of my social anxiety. But otherwise, I don’t want to attract more activity when I know I already don’t have enough time and focus to maintain the activity I already have. So if you have followed me because of the rp etiquette of “if I follow I want to interact,” and I don’t follow back, it doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t want to write with you. Sometimes that is true. When I get followed I read the person’s rules. If I can’t find your rules, or if I see a rule that I feel I violate or would easily violate unintentionally, then I don’t look to write with you. However, there are times when someone follows and I think… oh wow, I’d love to write with them. But as I said, I have too many blogs/muses right now, so I feel it’s irresponsible to go looking for new connections when I don’t really properly maintain the ones I have. I don’t want to close my blogs for new interactions, per se, but I don’t go seeking out more activity either.

But the main reason I wanted to write this is to explain some issues I’ve been having with my memory lately. In the past four years, I’ve had Covid twice and I’ve been put on medications for an immunodeficiency illness, and both of those things have very much made my memory and my ability to keep track of things very poor. I am getting people confused on this site that I never did before, I weirdly repeat myself in posts, I am forgetting what I said in one thread vs. another, I’m forgetting to message people back, or I’ll promise to send in asks or whatever and then never do it. I also tend to get very confused between people who write the same characters, since all I have to go on is a url and an icon if I don’t know the person in real life. I’ve gotten rpers mixed up before because it’s all very jumbled in my head. Sometimes that makes people feel like I am being rude, inconsiderate, or that I don’t care about them, but that isn’t true. I genuinely just can’t hold onto thoughts and memories the way I could a few years ago. I’ve even had to leave my career field, for safety reasons because making stupid mistakes or forgetting to do things since my memory has been affected by Covid and my medications.

The issue of my memory is something that I’ve been in denial about because it’s a scary and upsetting thing, and I guess I’ve been trying to chalk it up to stress or whatever, but clearly that’s not the case, and I need to accept that I have a real problem. In recent months, I have not only gotten people mixed up, but I have done things like list the top 5 people of something and leave someone out, or say someone was the best or only person I wrote with when others write the same character, or replied to one person’s thread thinking I was writing to different person. Sometimes they are close friends of mine, or I’ve been writing with them longer than the ones I listed. Why would I not remember them? How could I screw things like this up? I don’t know. It’s disturbing to not be able to trust your memory, it honestly is.

When I don’t know people in person and all I see is a url and an icon, I sometimes get very confused. This has always been true for me, since way back with AIM in the 90s, but in recent years it’s been compounded by my memory issues. Thread plots and things get all jumbled in my head. I just wrote a thread the other day where I replied to someone and I thought I was replying to another person’s same version of that character. It was mortifying and I felt really bad. If this happens to you, or if I get your version confused in an OOC post, or if I compliment someone else’s version but not yours, it doesn’t mean your version is crap or doesn’t mean anything to me, it’s just that I’m having some focus and memory issues that are causing me to forget versions sometimes or to blend them together in my head. I will take greater care not to make such mistakes in the future, but when dealing with something like a buggy memory, it’s really hard.

People frequently change urls too, which is another thing that often throws me off, because then in my mind, it’s a totally different, new person until I have enough repetition to associate the new url with the person behind the old one. The number of blunders I’ve made recently with saying to people, “I’m sorry, who is this again?” has been staggering and very embarrassing for me. Like just having to ask that question is incredibly mortifying, but I need to do it more instead of trying to reply on my memory and then making very hurtful mistakes.

I have not been keeping up with things on this site as well as I should have in recent years, and that is a failing of mine. Personal relationships have suffered. Connections I’ve made here have fallen apart. I feel like it’s very much getting away from me in an overwhelming manner and I’m not sure how to fix it, other than downsizing blogs and muses, which I’m trying to do now. But that won’t fix my memory, so I’ll likely keep making mistakes even if I downsize. I ask that you please be patient with me, and if you think I’ve made a mistake or haven’t remembered something, please let me know. If doing that is too much trouble for you or you feel like you shouldn’t have to, I totally understand, and if you would feel more comfortable not interacting with me anymore, I respect your decision.

A word about how bad I am with messages… I have very bad social anxiety and messaging people sometimes causes me to have panic attacks or to feel very jittery or overwhelmed. For like, no reason. Even with good, close friends. It’s like…. brain, why. Because of this, I will usually not answer messages until and unless I am in a good headspace to do so. Or it could just be that I don’t have the time if it’s something I’m writing a really long reply to that I want to put adequate thought into. Whatever the reason, I frequently won’t answer right away because I need time to think of a response, or something else is making me anxious so I don’t feel up to replying. I fully intend to reply later, but then the poor memory kicks in, and I forget. Before I know it, I’ve sometimes got people angry that I have been ghosting them for months when I completely forgot I even got a message in the first place. I am kindly asking you to not take this personally. I’ve been doing a lot of this lately. Sometimes, to compound issues, this site doesn’t even tell me that I have messages in the first place, which for someone whose memory is screwed up, is seriously frustrating. I never ignore people unless I think they’re a bot, heh. So please, if you messaged me and I seem to just have completely ignored you, it's okay to message again and ask if I saw it. In fact, I encourage you to do that, because between Dumblr and my own memory, I have really been forgetting to message people back a lot lately, and it’s something I do feel badly about.

One thing I want to make very clear, is that I NEVER fault anyone for taking a hiatus, whether it’s three weeks or three years. Real life comes first, this is a hobby not a job, it should be fun, and if it ceases to be fun or feasible to keep up with then everyone needs to do what’s best for them, and I am perfectly fine with that. Hell, I’ve been taking more hiatuses in the past year than I’ve actually been around to write, because of various work, health, and family issues/obligations. I’m on a partial hiatus right now and likely through next week for jury duty, in fact. I never fault anyone for needing to step away. I’ve had people come back after like five years and still want to write and that’s fine. So if you’ve come out of hiatus and I’m “ignoring” you, it might be that I didn’t see your message, that I don’t remember who you were because of a url change or if it’s been many months or years, or that I don’t even know you’re back. Jog my memory as to what we were writing about, some of our plots and things, and I’m sure that I will remember. Unfortunately, my memory is just not great anymore, it’s a reality that I’ve struggled to come to terms with in recent years.

Also, and this is going to sound very rude I know, but it’s again… just my new normal and reality with regard to my memory. I really don’t have the time or focus to keep track of when everyone leaves or comes back from hiatus or for how long. Maybe this is bad rp etiquette on my part, but I don’t frequently read other people’s blogs or even scroll my dash that much anymore. I just don’t have the time. If I think of it for certain people that I haven’t heard from in a while or that I want to check in on, I may pop onto your blog, but most of the time I do tend to miss a lot of everyone’s OOC posts. I come on to write and then I go back to work (my current job is entirely online), or I go about my family obligations (I take care of my grandmother around the clock). Gone are the days when I used to keep in better touch with people or read all their OOC posts. It’s a combination of not having enough free time to do so and that I’ve really gotten crazy with the number of blogs and muses I have, and so I write with a multitude of people that I just can’t all keep track of. This is a problem of mine, I know, and I am in the process of whittling down my schedule and number of muses to help correct it as much as possible. But just because I didn’t know it was your birthday, or I didn’t like your hiatus post, or I didn’t respond to that post you wrote that said you were really sad and needed someone to talk to… doesn’t mean I don’t care. I do care a lot about people. I tend to soak up people’s problems and sadnesses like a sponge, unfortunately. I just don’t have the time to keep up with all the people I write with all the time. If there is something you really want/need me to know, message me. I know I said I often postpone replying for when I feel more up to doing so, but if it’s something very urgent or important, I will respond ASAP.

One last thing I was to address… please don’t let something that is upsetting you fester to the point where you’re seriously hurt by it. I never intentionally mean to hurt anyone. If anything, I am the most nonconfrontational, people-pleasing person you’ll meet. So if it appears that I’ve done or said or not done something that was really rude, or upset you, or that you feel was very wrong of me to do to you, I promise you it was not done with intention to hurt you. Please come talk to me about it. Don’t let it just sit for a long time and make you angry because I’m likely not even aware that you’re upset. I would like the opportunity to look at what happened and to address it, so that you can feel better and I can be made aware of what I did so as to try to avoid doing so in the future. The last thing I ever want to do to someone is make something into a painful thing they’ll carry with them for a long time. Believe me, I’m the kind of person who still remembers things from early childhood that hurt me and have stayed with me forever. Things have happened on this site, some my fault and some not my fault, that have haunted me for years because I end up feeling so terrible about it. I know that’s probably a product of my chronic anxiety, but even so, it doesn’t feel good at all and I would never want to do that to another person. So please bring something to my attention as soon as it happens so that it can be addressed, fixed, or at the very least explained.

Alright, I think that’s everything I wanted to address. I've tried to be as open and honest and I could possibly be. If this post changes your mind about wanting to interact with me, I understand. You all have to do what is best for you. I just wanted to be transparent with people because hurting someone badly really made me realize that this isn’t something that I can just dance over and hope it’ll all be okay. I’m now aware that it’s affecting real things and real people in negative ways, and so I wanted to make everyone aware.

Sorry for all the word vomit, but I thought this was very important to do. Again, if you’ve read to this point, thank you for taking that time to do so. I will continue to try to do as much as I can to conduct myself in a respectful manner with all of you, and I look forward to writing with those who still want to.

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Alright, that's all for tonight. Next Weds (2/19) I have grading for work to do, so I'll be on hiatus from rp on Tues-Weds at least. I'll be back here on the following Weds (2/26). See you then! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Alright, that's all for tonight. I should be back here again next Weds (1/15). See you then! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} I am sorry to disappoint everyone yet again, but I've been under a lot of stress lately, and my focus to write is suffering. I need some time to process tonight, for reasons I'm sure so many of you out there are also feeling, and I need a good portion of Weds (11/6) this week to finish grading assignments for my classes, so I'm going to have to skip this week and try to reset my brain a bit. I will make every effort not to skip my RE blogs next week, since I owe so many of you replies at this point and I know activity here hasn't been great lately. Thank you for understanding, I hope you're all doing okay despite the circumstances of tonight, and I'll see you back here next Weds (11/13).

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} That's all for tonight, folks. I still have more to do, but it's almost 6AM and I've got to head to bed. But I do want to let everyone know that I'm changing my rp schedule a little bit. I've put a couple blogs I use to alternate with another on Sats on hiatus for the foreseeable future to downsize because work will be taking up a lot more of my time in the coming months. I'm going to move my RE blogs to Sats and alternate them with this other blog, freeing up my Weds for work if I need it.

I know that means that you'll be getting replies on these blogs every two weeks instead of weekly, but it'll be a much more reliable every two weeks. Every time classes start or end, or every time I have a lot of grading, I either have to skip these blogs on Weds or I'm staying up really late trying to get everything done like I did tonight. Work is rarely ever heavy on Sats, so rather than saying I'm gonna be here every Weds and then canceling a lot, I'll be here every other Sat reliably.

What this means for right now is that I won't be here next Weds (6/18), or on any Weds going forward. Instead, I'll be here on 6/21, and every other Sat from then on. I'll change my pinned post on all my blogs to reflect this change too. So I'll see everyone back here on 6/21. Goodnight! =)

[freewillacquired]

PSA: A note on exclusivity for my blogs…

{out of mutations} My blogs are not exclusive, and I am not an exclusive writer. Clarification of my exclusivity policy for all of my blogs is below the cut, just FYI, to avoid misunderstandings and hurt feelings in the future.

Just to be perfectly clear, my blogs are not currently, nor have they ever been, exclusive. How I define “exclusive” is… only writing a muse with a single writer and not allowing multiples once one has been chosen. I am not exclusive with any writers on any of my blogs. I do write with multiple writers and multiple versions of muses.

As long as you are respectful and we get along, I am willing to write with you. If, however, the idea of me writing with other people who write your same muse makes you in any way upset, angry, or uncomfortable, feel free to unfollow, block, cease interaction, whatever you choose. That is your prerogative, and I respect your decision. If you need to block other versions that I write with so you don’t see their posts on your dash, again, that’s your deal, you do you. We all need to cultivate our own safe spaces in our little corners of the internet.

Do not tell me who I can and cannot write with, what I can post, or try to make me feel guilty that we aren’t exclusive. I am entitled to choose who I write with and why, what I post and why, and how I run my own blogs. I don't tell anyone else how to run theirs, so don't tell me how to run mine. I know many blogs are exclusive, or have “mains,” or have blogs/partners they prioritize over others, but I choose not to do that. I like to see people’s different versions of characters, and if it’s a canon character I really love, I want as many interactions as I can reasonably have time for.

Please be understanding and aware of this, and again, if you really don’t like that I write with multiples, it is your prerogative to decide not to write with me or interact with my blogs. Thank you for reading.

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} So... just a heads up for next week guys... I found out I've got family stuff to do on Tuesday, New Year's Eve (12/31), and Wednesday, New Year's Day (1/1). I thought I was only going to be busy on Tues night, but now my dad says he wants to do some other things on Weds night too. And I may or may not have a really important and nerve-racking meeting for work on either 1/2 or 1/3, my boss hasn't decided yet. In light of that, I don't think I'll have time or brain to be here on 1/1. I'm sorry, I know I've skipped my RE blogs a lot, but it's just the way they happened to fall with work and holidays this past month or so. I seem to always be busy on Weds, heh.

As of right now, I don't see a reason why I wouldn't be here on 1/8, and I'll really make an effort to be, because my RE blogs are starting to collect dust. I'll have to play it by ear, though, since I have this whole other project for work now that got dropped on me during my break, and it'll likely continue for the next few months at least, right through the start of classes, so right now it's unclear when or how much work I'll be doing for that. Thanks for your understanding while my life is crazy, and I hope to see everyone back here on 1/8.

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Alright, that's all for now! Mercifully, my internet was working all night long, and work left me alone, so I was actually able to get things done around here for the first time in a long time. Woo-hoo! Next week, my university has their spring break, so my students have nothing at all due. I can't see a reason, barring a complete failure of the internet, why I shouldn't be here next Weds night (3/19). I'll see everyone then! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} That's all for tonight, folks! Next Weds (4/30) I'll be grading assignments and dealing with wrapping things up for the last week of my classes, so I won't be around. I should be back on the following Weds (5/7), since by that time my students should be mostly done with last-minute complaints and makeups and I can turn in final grades. See you then! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} That's all for tonight. Unfortunately, I have to skip being here on 4/2 and 4/9 because I've got two big assignments due for my classes that I'll be grading for on Tues-Weds for the next two weeks. So I'll be back here again on 4/16. See you then! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} That's all for tonight, folks! I'll be back again next Weds (3/26). See you then! Goodnight! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} I still have a few replies left to do, but it's getting late (or early, haha) and I have a long day of work ahead of me, so I have to get some sleep. I'll get done whatever else I owe next Weds (6/11). See you then! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Alright, that's all I've got in me for tonight. I should be back next Weds (10/9) as usual. I really wanted to focus on getting as many thread replies out as possible, so I didn't get to finish the headcanon memes for Nemesis and Kaplan. I'll try to get those done for next week. For now, I sleep. Goodnight, see you next week! =)

[freewillacquired]

{out of mutations} Just a heads up before I turn in for the night... My day is seriously booked up tomorrow (11/20) and I have to get up a lot earlier than normal. Because of that, I'm likely to be really tired by the time I get on here, so it may be a light night. I'll get to what I can, but I just wanted to say that if anybody is struggling to get out replies for our threads this week because of time constraints or other issues, don't feel you have to rush for tomorrow because I might not be able to get to too much.

I also won't be here next Weds (11/27). It's the day before my birthday and Thanksgiving, so I'll be helping my dad cook/bake things and then having a movie night with him. I'll be back on 12/4, but then may need to skip once more on 12/11 due to my classes ending. I'll be on a short hiatus that week to wrap everything up. Sorry for the lack of activity, but this is just a busy time of year. Thanks for understanding, and I'll see you here tomorrow to get done what I can! =)