To begin at the beginning (in Richard Burton's voice, Dylan Thomas' prose) in Words, words, words

It has been extremely difficult for me to adjust to Prosebox. I am doing my best.

In other news, I am in the trippy state of being so absorbed in a fictional project I'm working on that it's hard to live in the real world. I've been engrossed in my fictional worlds before now, but never to this degree. It's kind of cool, kind of scary--I just hope something good comes out of it.

Maybe it's an unconscious reaction against PhD stress, worrying about my sister, my dad, hospital tests, and fear of what happens after I finish the PhD. Yes, because the American Revolution is much less stressful than all that. :-P