Friday, September 28th, 2018 01:10 pm
It's been a long time. I really miss meaningful online social interaction, and That Other Site is just ticking me off once too many times today. (Let's not mention all the other reasons I, a person who looks female, might have an ever so slightly shortened fuse today.)

I'm going to try to be here more often. Hi, everyone. <3
Friday, September 28th, 2018 08:24 pm (UTC)
Hi! I may finally check this out more than once a month.
Friday, September 28th, 2018 08:45 pm (UTC)
Hello, CJ. Welcome back. It has been [calculating] 3,436 days since your last post.

Or 9 years, 4 months, 26 days excluding the end date.

The internet is lovely for calculating things like this. Huzzah!
Friday, September 28th, 2018 10:59 pm (UTC)
Yay! I would love to see people posting substantive things here and actually engaging in conversation. I don't suppose it'll ever be like LJ in its heyday, but I'd love to see more activity here. I feel like I can't post anything meaningful on Facebook; I'm there because that's where a lot of people I care about are, but it's an arena where everything feels very public, and I feel so many eyes on me that I hesitate to say much.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018 05:54 pm (UTC)
Hi, I've added you to my lists. I don't post here much. But I do try to drop in. See you around.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018 05:57 pm (UTC)
Yes! FB is getting so annoying. I sat down yesterday and looked up LJ and DW for the first time in a while.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018 06:08 pm (UTC)
I'm back too :)
Saturday, September 29th, 2018 11:51 pm (UTC)
Pleased to see ya!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 03:37 am (UTC)
Heya! I've been terrible about posting here, but am getting semi-regular about reading.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 03:00 am (UTC)
Hahahahahahaha. Drowning in work in part due to lack of focus from reactivated PTSD, these last couple weeks. And in part because someone, somewhere made the decision that people should be able to contact their doctor with any kind of question / new and concerning symptom through "patient portal" email, phone, or showing up and dropping off forms without explanation...without making sure that doctors had dedicated time in their schedule to respond to these things. I do still firmly feel that I am doing the right thing and on a right path, but finding sustainability is hard.

Also I own a house now...in New Orleans, where the whole apocalyptic climate change thing is knocking on the door. Plan is to stay here and love the city and dance until either I'm gone or the city is.

Also still own a 33 y/o automobile as my primary means of transportation. Because...adventure? or unfortunately drastic capability for emotional attachment to objects. Perhaps both.

How about you? Things are sounding rough, from the bits that I can see.
Thursday, October 11th, 2018 04:19 pm (UTC)
Charts / etc - on our end of it all, I place most of the blame on insurance companies and the way that medical billing and payment works. For all the talk about "shifting to a focus on quality" or "value rather than volume" the heaviest emphasis is on getting as many patients in & out as possible and documenting just enough to qualify for billing (which is vastly different from functional documentation that allows for an understanding of the patient's conditions and care). Somehow the calls/emails/etc just got shoehorned on top of that, but because it's not billable, there is the minimum amount of dedicated time allowed to deal with it. *grr argh*.

And yiii, the midlife unraveling sounds really tough. I'm curious, and also happy to be a sounding board if that's a useful thing. I'm not quite at unraveling, but definitely at "well I made this huge professional redirect and now I need to figure out how to make it sustainable".
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 04:14 pm (UTC)
Ohai. After your most recent post I felt like there must be some history and I needed to read back. And I find you only rediscovered this place about a month before I did. It was really nifty to see you this past weekend for the first time in aaaaaaages and I would be totally up for getting together sometime over a warm beverage if you're up for it. My work being in Mountain View makes south bay destination after work pretty reasonable.