Other people seem to be coming out of it (the woodwork, that is.) So should I.
So looking back at my last post, that was December 12th. Lucky me, next day I was hospitalized for acute pancreatitis. Like, talking about giving me dialysis acute. So that was fun. They released me eight days later and let me fly back to the States for Christmas as planned. The doctor really took pity on me, because I think his colleague wanted to keep me in Japan. Home during Christmas on a super restricted diet was fun. Everyone else was stuffing up on cake and wine and I couldn't have either. But my family doctor got me an emergency slot in surgery to get the damn gall bladder out while I was in the States and I'm mostly all better now, though I can't eat certain things anymore. I'm no longer waking up in the middle of the night with extreme pain and vomiting in any case.
After Christmas was productive. I pulled out of the incredibly poorly planned musical and stayed on as musical coordinator only, and that's been much better for me. I've been able to make major progress on my loans since I'm not spending all my money on travel.
Perhaps the biggest news LJ-wise is that I'm forcing myself to write again. I'm doing major rewrites for "Shards of Me" because I will finish that story, damnit! I will not be defeated. However, going back and reading it, I realized that there was a lot that needed fixing. Like all of it. All of it needed fixing. So I've pretty much started from the ground up, but I'm into chapter 3 and I've added some new scenes to the unpublished chapter that would be the theoretical next update. I also uploaded all the drabbles I'd been neglecting to post and started a Legend of Zelda story, which I'll post once I'm a few chapters in. I know, I know. Finish one project before starting another, but I just couldn't help myself.
Lastly, Kenshin fic recs.
quoth_the_ravyn already recced
ClosetRomaticSockpuppet and her work. She's a non-native English writer, and it does show, but what she lacks in grammatical grasp, she makes up for in intriguing story. I'd also really recommend
Ayezur and all of her ongoing Kenshin fics. She's got a set of drabbles, a fantastic historical piece based in the beginning of the Tokugawa era circa 1600, and spin on the usual WIP slavery fic that's actually extremely well-written. I wasn't expecting to like it at all, but now I'm totally hooked. She's also got some FFVII stuff up, but she's a ValenTifa shipper, and I'm afraid I'm a CloTi only kind of a girl.
Today, I'm a bit off because of what happened in Boston. I've got a lot of friends out there, and I can honestly say that the news footage was too brutal. There are things I don't want to see, things that are private and personal and somehow they just ended up on the world stage anyway. Even BBC managed to piss me off, and they're usually so respectable.
But on the whole, I'm so much happier than I was last year, and I hope this continues to be the case.
How about you lot? How have you been?
~Jade