I'm back! (With a painting.)

I'm back! Reading Deprivation Week is over and I survived, w00t! It was harshly illuminating at times; on Friday I found myself sitting there thinking of playing Aria (back at a scary part; still need to kill Balore) or doing another layer on my painting (see below), but both of those were kind of intimidating, and I just knew any other week I would have avoided both and checked politics blogs instead. (So yeah, I'm hoping not to go back to that; more power to 'em and all but I don't think they're good for me.)

But yes, Friday I did a painting! ( cut for pics... )

But anyway, I caught up on my LJ and DW reading lists (shy as always about commenting, but I read them). In that way it's good to be back, but like with the politics stuff, I'll still have to see how I re-incorporate reading (and movies, etc) after the experience. I'm glad I did it.