lotesse | three things make a post

1. I'm in a snowpocalypse, and it's great! Three days of heavy snow and gale-strength winds and I'm happy as a pig in clover. Spent all morning shoveling out the steps, yelling Tennyson to keep rhythm.

2. I'm taking antidepressants. Mama got me started on a low dose of prozac two days ago, and so far so good. I feel a lot safer taking first steps on this when I'm home; I don't know why medication scares me so much - maybe residual ex issues? - but I think it'll be a good thing. I had accupuncture earlier in the week, which started everything - when the needles went in I started crying and couldn't stop, and that finally got me to be honest with mama about how hard things have been of late. I'm still pretty scared of it all, but I'm also really really ready to put the depression away for a while.

3. Mama and daddy and I are watching Slings and Arrows, and between the Paul Gross and my status as a former Stratford Festival brat (I did their summer Shakespeare school several years running as a teenager, back when I thought I wanted to act professionally, and attended the season religiously until college took me further south) it's bundles of fun. Also interesting, that I'm reading/watching in C6D fandoms (is Slings and Arrows considered properly C6D?) that all center on mental health and creativity and isolation, when those subjects are so much at the forefront of my own day to day life.