It seems like its been a fucking time for more than just me, so doing another check-in thread to see how yall are holding up. Especially since its been a LONG time since ive done one of these.
Got something you wanna vent about? Wanna share something cool? Nows the time!
Love you all 
For my own part - back from tour. The band made money, but I am broke. Fortunately, starting my first job in 2 years on Monday, and whats more, ITS FUCKING COOL! Finally out of the tech field, and working thru Americorps to help with a local anti-homelessness organization. Im gonna be doing back end stuff interfacing with other local orgs, but its still a job im happy to have and can be personally proud of rather than working with stupid bullshit SAAS stuff. Met a hexbear on tour and had a great time with them, and after 3 floods in a week, my partner and I are moved into a new apartment and finishing unpacking. This time were on the 4th floor! Nice building, no complaints, place is modern looking and very clean, it just feels surreal after everything that brought us here.
my partner filed for divorce. i'm still jobless, now I'm couch surfin'. anxiety is... down, surprisingly. i think maybe i was in an unhealthy relationship, i think maybe i knew this was coming, and i'm extremely lucky for the people around me who think better of me than i do... giving me leave to shed some nasty brainworms i got whilst co-depend'n.
cw: ideation
haven't seriously thought of offin myself in almost 2 months, coinciding with startin to jog. i hate running a lot but i respond very well to EOOD apparently. so if running = ~~ideation~~ then imma run like forrest! get fucked "kill yourself" voice ahahahahaha (my hips hurt)!
Sending love, hope things calm down
Would cycling or swimming do the same? As someone whose agriculture/warehouse work for a decade is catching up to me, I want everyone to treat their joints like the precious gifts they are lol
i used to swim, (prefer it) and long ago i biked a bunch but... i don't have access to either right now, so jogging it is.
i'm being (hopefully) smart about my joints, scaling up the jog slowly and doing a program of post-run stretching that seems to be keeping my legs ok so far. in fact the hip pain in talking about is from some deep-ass stretches i just finished, it's a good(ish) pain.
Thank you for your concern friend! I'll try to stay careful.
OK you know what you're doing! (Just dont forget some pre-run stretching) And actually practice it lol. Hell yeah keep up the good works! Hell world seems a little less hellish when you feel like if it comes down to it you could outrun a cop lmao