Note About Me

[grayestofghosts]

I’m wondering if maybe I should introduce myself before going full throttle with essays in this blog.

Hello, my name is Louis, and I am 26 years old. I live in the United States. I write stories that can broadly be considered science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I post to twitter a lot, so I’m likely to keep shitposty entries here to a minimum because I already have a place for them. During the day, I’m a programmer. I have a bachelor’s in linguistics and math and am working on a master’s in cyber security. I have a round orange cat who I love very much. I occupy myself with craft projects and really like stationery. I lift weights and know I need to do more cardio. I’m Jewish, but I wouldn’t consider myself to be very good at it, but I guess that’s why we call it religious practice. I tend to bloviate. I cry a lot.

Relatively recently, many of the older members of my family have died, and some younger ones have had serious health problems. I am navigating difficult psychological and health issues right now, though none of them are life threatening, thankfully. I’m not likely to talk about them here. I could probably say something about this being why my posts are perpetually dour in tone, but that would be a lie. The fact is that’s just the way I am, have always been, and it seems unlikely that it will change in any substantial way in the future. But maybe it will. I have been going to a lot of therapy sessions.

Right now I am taking a break from most things. I’m convalescing from completing 2018’s NaNoWriMo (stopped, not completed, at 50,013 words), and my excuse is that nobody ever gets anything done in December, so why should I?

Well I guess that’s enough about me. Please enjoy a picture of my cat.

Comments

[mars_writes]

boop

[grayestofghosts]

boop

[ingridmatthews]

Hi Louis! Healing vibes to you and your family, congrats on finishing NaNo and your cat is a fuzzy wuzzy cutie, aw. He looks really soft.

Looking forward to reading your work.

[grayestofghosts]

Thank you! Yes, she is very soft. I don't think I'll post any prose here but I'll definitely have enough to ramble about otherwise.

[meridian_rose]

You won Nano, even if you're not done, and that's huge!
Oh, lovely kitty :D He (?) looks not impressed but hey, that's often cats vs cameras for you :)

[grayestofghosts]

Thank you. According to the NaNo website, my first was like 13 years ago... I think at this point I've done like ten of them. I don't know if I was prepared for this one. I'm not sure what I was expecting.

She definitely does what she wants. She can be more photogenic but I think that was my most recent photo of her.

[velsha]

<3 <3 <3

[grayestofghosts]

<3

[hadassahintheshell]

As just a random comment I like the color schema you have.

And yeah, I totally relate to not airing mental health all over. I’m not going to be posting too much on all my issues here either.

Great sympathies regarding all your family. <3

[grayestofghosts]

I could fill entire journals with my mental health problems. So, I do, in meatspace, so I don't have to here. Haha.

Anyway, thank you.

[roughdrafthero]

omg your cat is a fluffy orange creamsicle <3

[grayestofghosts]

Yes she is :p