SGDQ and being responsible

I've been looking forward to SGDQ for a while. Since AGDQ for a while. Unfortunately, real life has the nasty tendency to interfere with one's desires and wishes. IN this case, my brain decided that it was very tired of being alive and coerced me to try jumping out of the fourth floor window. Needless to say I did not become the pepperoni topping on a concrete pizza, otherwise I'd not be typing this. But wanted to eat a sidewalk sandwich is usually considered a Very Bad Thing, and made evident that the current treatment I am undergoing to maintain my decade-long depression and other such baggage is insufficient. As such, I've enrolled in a partial hospitalization program from July 15th--21st.

What this means is I'm going to have to take 5 days off from work in order to go to this program and learn skills and get treatment that is beyond what I am currently receiving. Given that I'll be gone the week following SGDQ for a professional conference, that means I'd be missing a lot of work. So I've decided that while I won't be skipping SGDQ altogether, I will have to truncate my stay. Rather than leaving on Saturday, as I'd originally planned, I'll be leaving on Wednesday. This will give me two more days at work to finalize any conference preparations and make some more advances on current projects. It sucks, but it's the most responsible decision. I can't not go to this program; if I'm trying to jump out of windows, it means something is wrong. This was the best solution that allowed me to still go to SGDQ, where I'll be able to at least see the people I want to see and watch a few of the runs I was most anticipating.

This whole shebang isn't of much importance to most people, I'd wager, but this is my first time trying out pastebin, and for anyone who has seen my Twitter posts and is vaguely aware of my circumstances, this might perhaps bring some solace that I plan to stick around a while longer.