i was going to update my blog because i'd felt like i'd neglected it for an unforgivably long period and also because my birthday bookmarks the passage of time in some supposedly significant manner.

but i couldn't think of anything to write about that wouldn't be incredibly depressing with me either spewing about my current workload and assignment stress, the whole pressure on the familial front spiel or the unemployment anxieties (all of which im doing nothing to quell, as usual,...