This is really revelatory to me, Ouise. I'm glad you spoke up. I'm kinda wondering now how much of the past two years' worth of depression was actually just fatigue. I know there was lots of other stuff going on with me, external and otherwise, but honestly the primary "symptom" of the mild persistent depression I had was not wanting to get out of bed, and being tired when I did. Maybe I'm past it now. Or maybe now that I know it I can be more proactive about it. I need to improve my sleep hygiene anyway.

I think I made my delurking post on Halloween last year, too.

I survived 2011, and ritually burned the calendar for that year, that's how awful it was.

This year: new job! I'm a senior technical writer for Isilon, which means I have a whole new flock of co-workers to startle by coming to work covered in blood today.

What else, what else? Almost done with the first draft of the fiction project my agent wants to see. I've been getting more and more requests to emcee events, which is fun. As of July I have stopped taking the daily handfuls of antibiotics I was on for the mysterious immune system things (whoo, Lyme disease), and I'm finally starting to feel more like myself again.

This is really revelatory to me, Ouise.

I'm really glad that mentioning it helped you! My doctor says that it usually resolves within a couple of years, and I've had clear improvement, especially since I started exercising.

I also use a light therapy lamp every morning for at least half an hour from September through to April. I had trouble with winters before, but didn't get the lamp until I was sick as well. It helps me a lot.

Good luck!

I don't post a lot anymore, but I'm not sure I qualify as a lurker. Maybe? Work takes up a lot of my time, and I've been in passive consumption mode most of the year.

Anyway, I still live in Chicago and work at the same company, although I got promoted earlier this year. Still getting a CSA share and cooking all the things.

I finally met Holli in person at DragonCon. I fell in love with Community. AVENGERS.

16 days ago I sprained my right hand and quit smoking. Hand still sprained, still not smoking.

(shrift, are you going to be free at all the weekend of 11/9-11/11? Plans are being made in the F2F thread and your profile email address)

The big change for me since last year is buying a house, which I LOVE, somewhat to my surprise. I'm still in the same job, which has kept me a little too busy, but is usually good or at least okay. I have a new cat, having lost Perkins the cat late last year. In the spring I hope to add a dog to the mix. Healthwise, I am one year closer to remission, but have found I hate the side effects of the pills that I have to take for another 9 years far more than I ever did the chemo.

(Oh, right--I have the same job, which I alternately hate and adore. Since it's the first time I've adored a job, it does count as a win, but it is exhausting, even when I am in adore mode)

Hi, friends! I am much more lurky these days, but do check in and think of y'all often. I'm in the same job, same condo, still married to my lovely wife. Shane turns 3 on Dec 21! Biggest news this year is that we are expecting another baby! Another boy, due May 4. Exciting and scary all at once.

Want to get this in under the wire, because I'm not only a lurker, but world-class procrastinator, as well. I was living in El Cerrito, but am now in Berkeley, living with family. I still don't have a full-time job, but am doing some temp. part-time work for a social policy research company. It's interesting. Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up here.

I still think it's such a wonderfull thing that this community exists. Wish I had more time to participate.

I feel like I am around a lot, but I don't think I post that much...

Still doing the same old thing. In my house that I love. With my cats who are more neurotic than me.

I'm currently suffering through the world's slowest mid-life crisis. Inertia is my nemesis. I really need a new job, and on the bad days a new everything else. Currently harbouring fantasies of selling my house, running away to Paris, and becoming a blogger. (Blogger is the new circus.)

Hi. I'm another long time lurker getting in just in time. I'm still in Boston, still have the four cats, and still at the same job. And still telling myself that I will starting posting any day now. So I'm around.

And still without much to say apparently.

I hope everyone is having a happy Halloween.