Update: Climbing From A Descent As An Empire Falls (Part XI)

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Content warning: hostile political environment, trauma

It has been a few months since I made my last post. As I had indicated, dance classes eat up a lot of my free time. My vacation visiting family and friends had also been more busy than anticipated. All the same: life in the new year of 2026 had started on a rather positive note even while the world deigns to go on fire.

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Update: Climbing From A Descent As An Empire Falls (Part X; as of mid-late November 2025)

Black journal with a black pen across it, on a comforter with white tiger print.

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Preliminary Comments: I had this written two months ago, but realized I forgot to press the publish button. I blame absurd busyness.

Content warning: post-traumatic stress talk

So, keeping impeccable to my word, I am going to make this post far less word-y than my last post. This past week has been interesting to say the least, even if a bit busy and me learning what post-achievement depression is like – or more accurately, I have encountered this multiple times and now have language to describe it. In short: there exists a valid sort of depression where one had been so hyper-focused on a goal and put so much of their time and energy into it, that once they accomplish it, that mental space clears and leaves only a void. Mentally, one would think this should be a good thing, but the mind sometimes does not react to it that way.

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Update: Climbing From A Descent As An Empire Falls (Part IX)

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Content warning: hostile political environment, systemic racism, gaslighting, friendships ended

I understand that I have not posted in a while, and for that, I genuinely apologize. This silence had also been reflected in a number of online community spaces where I had been at one point very active. It has been quite a tumultuous few months, and the pace definitely has done all but slowed down. This began with the move for my new tenure-track position—a job I love in a community where I hope to thrive. I have so many things to catch everyone up on, which means this long update will include a number of subheadings in favor of accessibility. The grand move did not happen without incident. No reprieve from other obstacles in addition to thousands of dollars I owe family for the move itself.

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