Good evening!  I am tired.

Enough of that though, I wanted to update everyone on my ongoing struggle with the disease called “life”.  It’s been a bit since I talked about life things, so I figured an update was due, especially since I haven’t been posting anything but Hell/Dolls stuff recently.

Health-wise, I’m fluctuating between “healthy” and “dead”, but not as badly as I would’ve expected by this point in my life.  I visit a mental health doctor, family medicine doctor, dentist, and eye doctor regularly compared to how I was the past decade.  Teeth are still in my head, blood pressure and cholesterol could be better, and sleep is what it has been since high school.

My right eye, however, possibly has something called keratoconus, which basically means my eye is distending at a rate that could cause partial blindness if left untreated.  I’m seeing someone in September to confirm I have it, then I get the surgery if I do, hopefully before the end of the year.

I have kept hold of my current job, now making it the longest career I’ve ever held (just passed five years), and I still enjoy the people, coworkers, and the work.  If I end up moving out of my current state, I will definitely look for a similar job.  Unfortunately, a lot of my favorite coworkers (including my direct boss), have either left the company indefinitely or prepared themselves to leave, so there’s a lot of shuffling positions right now, which is a little stressful, especially considering I don’t know who’s going to be filling the holes.  New bosses can always be a hard thing to get used to, more so if they have a different leading style than you’re used to.  Still, I’m holding my breath.

Aside from that, as y’all are (painfully) aware, I’ve been writing a lot more than before in my spare time, mostly Hell/Dolls and supplementary material for it.  I am still greatly enjoying building the world beyond its original design, and redesigning and building new characters and pieces of the world.  I haven’t had this much freedom with my passions in a long time, mostly due to being pressed for time – work, stress, and duties to school and family were always preventing me from committing my thoughts to paper.  Nowadays, I feel like my scheduled interactions with others are more clear, well-placed, and fit with my pace and needs.

I’ve been looking into Fiverr for some high-quality art for my story (mainly for the cover, world map, and possibly a map of the main city), and a couple artists have stood out to me.  If I can at least get a commissioned world map with the details I want, I will be much more likely to release art with the chapters, as I originally wanted.  I may release the first designs I had, but I’m still on the fence.

The last thing I wanted to talk about today was my reviews.  I haven’t really been posting many anime reviews lately, and I haven’t posted a game review since I came back, as much as I want to write them.  I’ve been watching full cours of anime recently, so I’m not lacking review material, but I need to buckle down and think hard to write those reviews in a way that doesn’t sound too repetitive, which I felt was happening with the last few I wrote.

To be honest, I have a few reviews started right now (Metallic Rouge, The Wrong Way TO Use Healing Magic, and a couple of other fun ones), but for me, reviews have to be written after binging the series or while watching episodes.  Otherwise, the details get fuzzy, the episodes blend together, and I forget key points or confuse characters or meanings.  I have never deemed myself a professional reviewer, and I won’t deign to be one now.

That’s all for now, I just wanted to give y’all a quick update on my life.  I hope you all enjoyed my rant today.  I’ll try to get some more content posted.

Thanks for listening!

-Marcosias Isif