This time last year, I was certain that the only things I had to look forward to were burying people and being buried.

In an effort to become even less prescriptivist and even more descriptivist, I've decided to stop using dictionaries to determine proper spelling and have started relying on Google ngrams usage data instead.

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Now don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of social networks and microblogging/nanoblogging, but I'm not really ready to buy into the hype about the obliteration of traditional media.

Really, the problem is that there is too much on my mind right now. (I've mentioned before how thinking too much is going to get me into serious trouble and perhaps might even kill me.) I mean, yeah, sure there is the fact that I have to figure out the trajectory of my life in 3 months, give or take. And then there are all sorts of other situations that, admittedly, I probably shouldn't be thinking about, but because I don't want to deal with the issue at hand, I let them fill my mind.

Why does this exist?

New York and a few random epiphanies.