busybee fluffy rambles

Just some brief stuff:

• Finally followed through on my intention to remove (most of) my music from Spotify. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a huge mistake.
• I got an update on my disability process in that it’s moved to final approval… right before the government shut down.
• Pain-wise I’m doing okay, not great, and same for fatigue. I’m still not driving.
• Things are progressing with the game I’m working on, but I’m worried about its financial future due to being NSFW and sex-work-positive.
• I’m pretty worried about the current timbre of American politics right now, what with being both trans and an atheist. Also my passport won’t be eligible for renewal until mid-December and I’m not sure the gender marker thing is going to hold out that long.
• Who cursed me to live in interesting times? They can fuck right off.

So, a couple months ago I started on Lyrica, which made me super fatigued and didn’t help with my pain any. And I got super frustrated about not being able to get anything done.

Over the last couple weeks I’ve been tapering off the Lyrica, and it’s made a huge difference in my energy levels: I’m actually able to do stuff again!

So of course with this surge of energy I’ve been Doing All The Things, with the inevitable result that I am now in incredible pain because I’ve overdone it (as you could probably tell by all the work I did on the streaming music prototyping over the last couple days). And of course, I got it to a spot where things are useful for a hypothetical future, but nothing anyone else can actually use just yet.

My life is such a precarious balancing act, huh.