It has honestly been almost a year or at least half a year since anyone has asked me this question, so I might as well indulge myself in it. I hope people across the pond (or people not across the pond for that matter; these things have been hitting people differently) are doing better than I am (though I hear Italy has been going through its own wildfire phase, ahem, "wild" fire), but it has been a roller coaster with the Canadian wildfires, seasonal allergies, a local tick epidemic (and yes, the word "epidemic" here is not a hyperbole, that's how people are describing it), a heat advisory, and media regulations occurring in what like twenty countries (which have been restricting how I navigate conversations), along with the stuff I typically mention or have mentioned (family matters and whatnot).
Imagine being told "we have banned media, go enjoy the wider world or something" by one news agency but then being able to flip a single channel and see the other news agency say "go watch those Netflix shows you have been saving up, you'll need it because there's a smoke/tick/heat advisory outside". What times we live in where even the restrictions cannot make up their mind (cue the old "guess I'll die" meme). I'm surprised we don't have a local Jimothy conversation.
There was a point too where I thought I'd be feeling better for at least a while. Went to then watch a review of a game I saw called A Space for the Unbound. And... do you ever have times when you think you're feeling good but then you watch something that's so relatable that you have a kind of epiphany like "wow, I guess I'm not doing that good after all"? I'm not blaming the game, it's a good game. But wow does the feeling hit.
By the way, when I mention a tick epidemic, if you're ever wondering, I feel I can say who the culprit is. Deer, deer everywhere, with a few passing my home right before my front porch gets literally rained upon by ticks (ticks flock to deer like moth to a flame). They're like tiny terrorists and I'm surprised the government turns a blind eye to them, despite the fact they're the single greatest nemesis to labor where I live (though then again, Australia did once try declaring war on emus for this reason during/after WWII only to lose). The ticks of all things don't even care about the smoke from the wildfires.
