Aaaaand a week later I'm back again. December is such a pain in the neck. And a microcosm of my LJ in general these days. I never actually intended to go mute for, what, three years? Something like that. And I still think "I should post that!" often. But it's that first post, the "here's what I've been doing for the last month, no, six months, no, a year, no, wait a minute..." post, that stops me. And once you get in the habit of lurking and reading and not posting, it's pretty comfy. But I do miss my flist! I still read everybody, but I think I've commented three or four times since then, and it's not the same at all. Alas for lurking. :(

Other than that, things have been good, bad, and indifferent. Much like yourself, as I read! Thank goodness for shinies like Merlin, that distract from things like layoffs, job hunting, debt, stress, blah, blah, blah. Every field I'm qualified in is cutting back severely or instituting hiring freezes? Awesome, gimme more fannish crack. sigh. Even the frustrating fannish things, like running out of good fic or my Merlin ep source disappearing on me or people making the same complaints about changes to the source legends after every single episode are less annoying than... pretty much everything else. Heh. Except the cancellation of Pushing Daisies. That's a tragedy no matter what the basis for comparison.

So how are you? Any good news on the job hunt and/or PhD front? Would it help if I sacrifice something to a fish-god? ;)