No, really, I'm not.

I haven't been reading LJ at all for the past couple of months, for which you have my apologies. Please do let me know by email if there's anything important (please note that the latest Christmas meme does not count) I've missed.

Healthwise has been up and down, physically I'm not doing too badly but mentally I'm less well. Memory is just shockingly bad at present and I get the strangest blocks on things. These days it feels less like walking through fog than it does walking through a perfectly transparent maze.

I've been keeping fairly busy writing a portfolio of stuff for a course I'm hopping to take. Work is painfully slow though because the watchword here is "quality", I really need to show the best work I'm capable of which is causing a large amount of editing, rewriting and dithering about plot. Currently I have one nearly ready poem, one just started poem and half a short story to show for two months work. Clearly I'm going to have to step things up a gear and soon. Then there's been writing for Odyssey, which has become rather more sporadic of late but about which I am still very enthusiastic, and writing for a tabletop game I'm supposed to be running in the New Year and for which I have an idea but haven't set as much of it down on paper as I would like.

On the bright side, writer's block and my own lack of willpower has meant that Tarranis has now hit level 80 in World of Warcraft. I foreseee having to put the kind of play limits I had in place for last year's NaNoWriMo (1,500 words down each day before I could play WoW) come the New Year, if I'm to have any hope of finishing my portfolio.

I do hope that all is shiny in your world, and that you face 2009 well and happy ... however those terms apply to you.