Popping into say hi and let you know I'm still around.
I've barely watched any movies since taking a break here. Spending a lot more time fostering IRL relationships, including a couple that center a lot about talking about movies which honestly sates most of my desire for film discourse. Mediated relationships in general I find have been not worth the time and energy so I've dropped almost all of them and find myself much happier about the quality of my relationships right now. Except for one dear friend, if I don't see you face to face, you're probably not going to hear about what is going on in my life and I'm liking it that way for the moment.
While I liked a lot of my time here, I think I echo the sentiment others have had here that my previous movie addiction and writing was mostly disassociating from dealing with a lot of personal issues and as much as I enjoy a good movie every now and again, the compulsion to fill up all my free time watching, writing and thinking about them is gone and I've become a lot more interested in spending time with people.
I will give you a few life updates:
-Still working on getting in control of my sleep apnea. Going to do a sleep study Wednesday night that should clear up a lot of the issues.
-Brother is getting married this weekend so I'm about to leave for that and it should be a good time.
-Went on a couple of dates with someone and we both mutually agreed that right now we don't feel anything romantic but both really want to keep talking to each other so we're just friends right now. She's got a background in theater and loves talking movies among other things so we end up having long conversations about our wide array of overlapping interests.
-I turn 33 next week, so I guess that's cool. I swear the years go by so much faster the older you get.