Communtity Check-In: How is everyone doing?
Given the current cosmic circumstances – hurricanes, extreme weather, end of the year festivities, moon 2: intergalactic boogaloo, and the never-ending struggle against the forces of evil – it seems like a good time to delve into each others personal realms just a a bit, or perhaps too much.
So... How's it going? How's life? Working on anything? How's the family? How's your friends and loved ones? Any worries? Any triumphs, failures, or any other radical (or not so radical) sensical nonsense? Writing or constructing your magnum opus? or are you just feeling like a massive dope, or even The Massive Dopeness?
Rant, don't rant, just a check-in, choose-your-own-adventure, go to page 85, or go to page 20, your choice.
We already have several recurring threads that scratch the surface of our present experiences, focusing primarily on tech and games and the like2. But, hows your individual journey going?1
Footnotes
1. If this were 2014a I would have thrown a yolo in there, but it's 2024 so it belongs in the footnotes to signify the cognizant cringe of it all.1a. If this were pre-2012 I would have thrown an "inb4" in there, but its 2024 so I've added it to a sub-footnote, and made it smaller hoping most people stopped reading before now
2. We have this recurring mental health thread, but I feel its a bit too targeted (more of a downage than a positive start of a conversation) and sort of dicey to talk about for most people in our public forum, especially on the permanent and entirely ephemeral superhighway of information.
Currently dealing with the aftermath of Milton. I'm on the east coast, so I didn't get the brunt of the storm, but the neighborhood I live in is a particularly low area. So I've got 6 inches of water in my house to deal with at the moment. Luckily I still have power and internet, so at least I can use fans and dehumidifiers, and listen to music while I clean up.
Very anxious about the world, my country in particular. Yesterday here in NL a refugee center that was supposed to open got damaged by a small bomb. Even though they wouldn't get any new refugees, just lower the pressure from somewhere else in the country...
That said, it seems like I finally, finally get a start for my career after 2 years of temp jobs.
There are still many other problems in my life, such as the lack of even a basic appartement(I live with my parents), but maybe I'll finally be able to steer my life on the rails again.
Putting a fair amount of time into volunteering for the Harris campaign.
I don't think I have ever been quite this invested in the outcome of an election. In 2016 there was still some uncertainty about what a Trump administration would look like. There is no longer any doubt.