To B: yes I'm still updating this blog, as sorry as it is. Before I make any excuses:

How can we ever have time if we don't take time? -- The Merovingian from "The Matrix Reloaded"

Yes.

Anyway, I just remembered this thing I read off of some Hallmark card or some such repository of cliched drek.

Now is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Despite everything, as long as I remember this, I think I'll be O.K. At the least, I won't be circling the drain.

It's 1:30am. I am so fucked tomorrow.

C'est la vie.