Absconsion photodump 👻 // Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve got a pretty intense workaholic streak. This certainly hasn’t been helped by the pandemic, which not only meant there where less social opportunities to begin with but also that the remaining ones felt less enticing or accessible due to safety concerns. Over the past few years I’ve found myself becoming more and more closed off from the world and falling deeper into the hole of not allowing myself to do anything with my time except work, and hey wouldn’t you know it? Apparently working 6+ days a week for 2 years straight without any significant time off is bad for you! Starting this past fall after pushing myself too hard for too long, and continuing since then I’ve experienced health problems that were determined to not be any medical issue but rather the physical effects of severe burnout. Since then I’ve been trying my best and sometimes still failing to take better care of myself, set better personal boundaries, and hold more time for rest and recreation. Learning how to do that has definitely been a process in unlearning the way I’ve ended up wiring my brain over the years, but I’m so thankful to the people pictured here for giving me so many excuses recently to run off to the woods, have fun completely detached from my work, and get back in touch with other parts of myself I was worried I had lost. As much as I love and miss drag and the drag community, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned the past few years is that it’s bad for my brain to have my work, hobbies, and social life all be the same very small circle because it means I never actually get proper time away from my work. Pierretta’s definitely not gone forever, but she’s needed a rest to make sure Whitney was doing alright first. While I’m currently back in a rut of intense burnout after one of the most taxing and difficult months of my career thus far, I’m reflecting back on these recent memories to remind me that I am still capable of being a real person and that things can and will get better. Thank you 👁🦷❤️