Zen, that sounds like a cool hobby. Too bad you don't live here. A lot of the campus departments have art shows that showcase local artists that rotate through every couple of months; your stuff sounds just up their alley.

Oh, that sounds great! I doubt anyone would want to showcase this "art" of mine, though; it's mainly dioramas that entertain my inner child. Dinosaurs are often involved.

Happy birthday, askye!

Happy apartment hunting, Hil!

They have a program called WRAP: Wisconsin Regional Art Program and anyone can submit their art for consideration. It is very cool. I, personally, think dioramas with dinosaurs would fit. You're using found objects and that is very chi-chi right now.

Congrats on the offer Hil! Although it would have been nice to have another Buffista in CT. :)

Happiest of birthdays askye!

I'm gonna kill some folks at DK if they don't stop giving me a hard time...I thought one advantage of not having co-workers is not being micro-managed. I mean, I care about disability blogging too but this is not the constitutional convention, people. Damn!

erika, I keep getting messages from DK saying I should log in and comment more - you want me to post ITA or something else supportive to your stuff? Or maybe just go and think smiting thoughts at them?

Too bad there's not a way to put in an affiliation link on your blog, erika, so that they can track which bloggers pull in traffic.

I really want a six-way.

Hey All, I wanted to check in, though given my levels of lurky/barely-there posting of late, my almost-total absence the past month or so might not have been noted. Anyway, the last month and a half has been a high-stress mostly crapfest. On top of traveling (nowhere fun, unfortunately), and family drama, my mom has had some health difficulties and been in and out of the hospital for the past month. My only local family is my brother who is just this side of No Help At All, so I've been running myself ragged with work, running her house and bills and whatnot (and my own), and visiting her at the hospital pretty much daily. But she's been home for a few days now and seems to be doing very well and I'm finally starting to feel like myself again. I've wanted to post here approximately a million times, but felt like I needed to do a full brain dump (see above) and just didn't have the spoons. But I've been reading lurkily at work and sending ~ma as needed. And I've been feeling remotely supported by you guys, even though you had no idea at the time.

Anyway, tl;dr, I felt like I needed/wanted to do a formal re-start to posting and trying to be more active around here. So here I am.

(Also, Not to steal Steph's Thunder as Official Birthday Attention-Wanting Gal, but MY birthday is also coming up [Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!] and I DO love to come in here for good wishes!)

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Welcome home, Epic!