Having not posted for a (rather long) while, today I want to say two things - I'm still here, and I'm very sorry for having been away. It's not that there haven't been things I've wanted to write about - far from it, and the post about camp will surface soon! - but that, through a mixture of circumstances, I've had to limit my time on web-based social media over the last month and a bit.
This is partly due to mere practicalities. For instance, we've made frequent trips up to Warwick in preparation for the new term, which involves staying somewhere that doesn't currently have any kind of internet access, let alone wifi, and that's meant I've missed the opportunity to send lots of people messages on their actual birthdays (sorry!) or even missed messages I've been sent completely. I'm working on the extensive backlog I've managed to accrue.
It's also because I don't think I quite realised how much I've been on the go for the past two (or more) years until I got a proper break. So, like the dreadfully slow pages of Internet Explorer that we all loved to hate in days of yore, I just needed to take some time to refresh.
That isn't meant to be an excuse or a sob story. Not at all - in fact, in many ways, this summer has been the easiest and most comfortable in about a decade. As I'll write about more explicitly and emphatically in my upcoming (and long time coming!) post on camp, I almost feel as though my body is going backwards in a very positive way, and rediscovering some of the freedom and ability it had this time ten years ago. So plans I had for socialising and reconnecting have most definitely not been scuppered by pain this time around - or at least not nearly as much as they used to be - and I have been able to catch up with a considerable number of very lovely people. Just not quite as many as I would've liked!
I just needed to give myself some space and time to take stock - and I'm very, very, very sorry that, in some respects, it has made me a rather neglectful friend over the summer. I'm happy that that seems likely to change from here on in.
As this date marks the start of my first Warwick adventure (five years ago!) and because tomorrow marks the official start of my new one, I thought it was serendipitous to rejoin the world of blogging today, buoyed by a combination of excitement and disbelief. I'll endeavour to keep it up from now on, along with being a more engaged friend and person in general.
I'll let you know how that goes.
Much love to friends old and new. Sincere thanks for being in my life.
Jx
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