Hey, guys! New here. I've been lurking for a little while and decided to finally make the jump into making an account. Love the quality of discussion here, and I'd like to one day start participating. For the meantime, I'll be lurking away! Recently moved out of my family's place. I had a terrible case of homesickness during the first couple of weeks, but that's beginning to dwindle away. What helped was finally taking up some Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes, which I've always wanted to do, and getting to know my roommates and my co-workers. I don't feel too alone now, so hopefully that means I'm making progress. The first couple of weeks, every time I left work to get to my place, I felt such a crushing sense of emptiness and loneliness. I heard depression once described as a perpetual homesickness. I'm sorry for anyone who has to go through that on a constant basis.
I'd like to add that I find it interesting that the reply link under posts are labelled as "+discuss", while submitting a reply has a button labelled "contribute". It makes me feel as if every post really is -- or must be -- a contribution. What a subtle but neat design choice.