Hi! Remember me? The one who hasn't posted in two weeks? And who hasn't been posting Flickr photos?

I'm still here.

The past two weeks I've been battling first a painful shoulder blade/upper back (I still don't know what I did to injure it), and then a nasty cold. I haven't felt like talking to much of anyone, including the internet at large. I think winter has gotten the better of me. I'm tired all the time, uninspired, and just sort of existing. The prospect of my upcoming Ireland trip is the only thing that's sustaining me these days.

It's not really that I'm depressed, because I don't feel depressed. I feel tired and uninspired. This is usually the part where I question my very existence -- why I'm here, what I'm doing, what's the point of it all. But to be honest, that's getting a little old because I never come up with any answers. Instead, I'm just trying to nurse myself back to health and be as good to myself as I can be until I can shake myself out of this hibernation. Because I know I will, one of these days.

In the meantime, my coworker gave some tulips to each person today to try to bring some spring into everyone's day. It couldn't have happened on a better day.