I've been browsing the forum for the last few days to catch up with all the chatter (really appreciate the Monthly Rewind topics! what a lovely idea), though I'm saving the events, shrine spotlight and plugs for when I'm actually on summer vacation.
Really looking forward to visiting new and revisiting old shrines...!! (Even though they keep disappearing. ;_;) Thinking of setting up a personal favourite shrine list somewhere on my domain too, instead of throwing everything into the bookmark folders. (Or link them on a Dreamwidth account to ramble about them so that I won't be necroposting here? Come back, old school guestbooks. ;_;)The last five weeks were all about studying for this year's law finals for me and it doesn't feel as though I have been able to immerse myself in anything, for fear that it'd distract me from studying... And the next two weeks will be like that too, with the first - and biggest! - exam taking place tomorrow. On the one hand, studying makes you feel productive, but it's not as fulfilling as actually creating something - a feeling that I sorely miss, along with those feelings of waking up every day and having something to look forward to, or having something that motivates you to get your other duties done as swiftly as possible, so that you'll have time for the thing you enjoy doing. It's also a very strange feeling to look back on what you have already created, whether those projects were completed, abandoned or are still trying to come into existence, and all the more so the farther they date back. It's a mix of "I did this?", "I spent so much time on this?", "I was capable of doing something like that?" and "Why did I stop?", followed by "How many more experiences do I want to miss out on?".
Elysa asked me whether I'd feel like shrining something once my finals are over, so I had a look at Amassment's current events (for that extra push) and I'm considering the Old School Challenge!
(Out of curiosity, is there any difference between some events being referred to as challenges, while others are called marathons?) I think I'll join and see how far I get, even if I might not make it within July (there's another exam mid-July 
). 
I also want to update my Liar Game shrine and my domain ASAP!tl;dr: Will be lurking again. Really happy to see Amassment still going strong and everyone being so supportive as a community!
CAN'T WAIT TO BE FREE.
