The State of Affairs · 11:55pm May 3rd, 2013
Yikes. It's been a while, hasn't it? I hate these blogs, but I kinda feel guilty when I don't say anything, so please bear with me.
First of all, let me apologise for the lack of activity in the last month or so. No, really, I'm sorry. :( I could go on a long list of specifics, but honestly, I think it's best summed up with: uni. Doing a law degree sucks, especially when it's a double degree. And when I combine this with the fact I am going to one of the best law schools in the country, the competition is intense (scholarship money is great), the workload is crazy (seriously, I am doing single subjects that are worth a degree's entire semesters' worth of units D:), and the fact that this degree will still take me over half a decade... Ew. Just the other week myself and a friend looked at our reading list for one subject that week and were like, 'Oh sweet! It's only 120 pages!' (and while I'm at it, why do academics/case reports feel the need to cram articles and shit on A4 paper in like size ten font? D: How is that meant to be readable?!). But this is one of those things where I know that hard work now will pay off hugely later, so I am just sticking it out. Oh yeah, not to mention working three or four days a week and my attempts to keep some degree of a social life intact. So there you go. Busy doesn't really cover it, haha. I'm also having a problem where whenever I sit down to write, whatever I do write is just... missing something. But that's my problem to work through.
Anyway, the point of all this is to say that while I'm sorry for the lack of updates and activity in general, I just want to say that I'm not gone (just trapped), and I have no plans of leaving As the Sun Sets unfinished. It just might take a little longer than expected as I wait for holidays, haha.
And to anyone willing to bear with me, thank you sincerely. You guys are the best. <3
Have a good one and stay crazy! I will be around. I promise.
No worries! Eventually you'll get a break and can spend some time writing, or doing otherstuff. It's all good.
1052728 Cheers, Tundara!
And I still can't understand people who are studying law stuff. As hard as I try, I can't figure out the interesting part of it.
Anyways, if you have fun with that, go ahead. I stay with you until the last chapter falls.
Aw, that's okay Mystic! Don't stress yourself too much. You'll have time for ponies sometime.
Take care of yourself!
You know, I think you need something.
How about sleep?
Are you getting enough of that out there in the cold, unforgiving world that is Law School? Do you even have time? Do they even give you a bed?
Could you afford one if they didn't?
I dunno, barring that I suppose you could just slip some chocolate every now and then, maybe that would help. Or perhaps a robot. Yes, a robot and its mighty ship that sails through space and cuts through the astral nebulae like butter. And a few giant cannons, and a crew, and a cook and some helpful aliens and a hard bargaining admiral and a politically minded council with little interest beyond their own financial gains and an adorable engineer with giant glowing eyes and maybe a wise cracking pilot that can't walk who constantly builds up will-they-won't-they tension with some hardwired AI from a company trying to kill him and all of his friends and maybe a Garrus!
Or... perhaps I'll just give you pat on the back and a simple thumbs up, maybe with a smile that says "Keep doing what you're doing, because no matter where you go, no matter what you do, you'll be who you are, and that's all we want you to be."
Either way, good luck with all of it, Mystic. Do what you've gotta do, but just remember to squeeze some fun in along the way.
A hiatus is good once in a while. It recharges the creative batteries.
Because law isn't hardcore enough, you had to go and pick double law eh?
Real life comes first :)
Maybe, two years later, you'll magically reappear.
It could happen.
I hope life has been treating you well :)
Just checking in, having finished reading your story about an unnamed Mare and her filly making their way home in a world that is all but dust and memories.
Just checking in, having finished reading your story about an unnamed Mare and her filly making their way home in a world that is all but dust and memories.
Probably never going to hear from you even if I DM'd, it's been 8 years but regardless, wishing you well.