happy february, blog readers. i am going to be quick here.

first a few updates and observances:

let’s all bow our heads and pray to the powers that be that our government can stop being the egomaniacal, divisive clusterfuck that it generally is for long enough to pull the current economy out of the shitter. by all accounts it’s bad and getting worse, but everyone loves to take their time. though i do agree that obama’s initial stimulus plan had some weird, nonstimulating things in it, like 50 million dollars, i think, to STD treatments. something like that. anyway. people need to move some ass. for real.

and speaking of. sometimes i feel like the luckiest man alive. because some people are having such a hard time right now. it’s periods like this when i want to become a volunteer, toss my own egomania/artsiness, and try to make the world a better place through concrete action (i.e., feeding and clothing people) instead of the lofty kind (sensitively strumming my guitar, fixing dark moments and universal truths in time/song). it’s a lot to have a roof over my head and to be able to be creative, to eat well, etc. i feel terrible. no one in this day and age with all that’s at our disposal should be struggling to survive unless that’s a choice. and certainly it is not.

i am, for the most part, feeling pretty good. tomorrow is five weeks since my sinus surgery. everything feels back in full swing and for the first time in many months i feel like myself again, mostly. honestly, it’s been so long that i don’t know what the baseline is anymore. but essentially i am feeling alright, and hoping it gets better still. i am still nervous about what will happen when i go off the nasty antibiotics (rifampin and doxycycline, if you must know). i here and there experience symptoms/sensations a lot like what i was going through when i was sick. but for the most part i am back on my feet. not gonna discuss it anymore because i am a superstitious person sometimes. but yeah. started singing for real again this past week and it felt great. doing improv, seeing improv, writing, and so on. doing everything except drinking/bar-related activities. but that will change soon, too.

ok, anyway this is running longer than i had expected. so i’ll pull the plug. the resolution you should concern yourself with is that i may refrain from posting new blog entries until i finish and post all the old ones that are still sitting in the “unpublished” area of my blog. i believe there are thirty or fortyish such unfinished posts. surely they can’t all be that important. and some may no longer be relevant. but i don’t want to waste them. so i’m going to try and get some of that done. and then back to regularly scheduled chronological programming.

ok, then. we’ll see how that works out.