Hello, world?
...can't tell for sure when the last time I actually used Tumblr was. I had to reset my password to sign in. If posts have timestamps on them, I haven't figured out where to look.
I know it's been a while. I don't know how long... I don't know any number of things about my past, on account of a couple of moderate to severe neurological events that resulted in memory problems, a seizure disorder, memory problems, some personality changes, and a few other things that I don't remember.
The memory problems include a less reliable memory generally, scattered loss of access to existing long-term memories, about a month and a half of near-complete anterograde amnesia, an aggravation of my general tendency to make the same joke over and over again, and a few other things I don't remember.
The disruption to my memory was precipitated by a seizure on February 2nd of 2024, which means I temporarily lost the ability to form new long-term memories on Groundhog Day, which is objectively the funniest day for it.
I'm not saying you should get anterograde amnesia, but I will say if you for whatever reason have to but you get to choose a date, February 2nd will add a delightful frisson of whimsy to the experience.
Well, I don't actually know much about the experience, but it does add a certain je ne sais quoi to looking back at it and imagining what it was like.
My online presence has shrunk over the past couple of years until it was just BlueSky, but I am trying to branch out a bit and maybe restore some old connections or build new ones... it's honestly kind of half a dozen of one and I forget what of the other, with me.
I think it's likely both the interface and vibes of this platform have changed since the last time I was actively here, but I also have no real basis for comparison. Don't know if people do long bloggy posts like this here or not, but I'm not a concise person and I don't know how else to do it.
Anyway, I felt it was worth covering the amnesia of it all in my first post back because there's always the worry that somebody will think I'm snubbing them if I act like I don't remember them. Please believe me that it's not an act and please feel free to remind me if we know each other.
