Fear not, sweet Reader

I'm still here, albeit swamped with work. I decided to take a real break for Thanksgiving -- studied a bit on the bus ride home but spent four days being a mental vegetable on the sofa -- so I'm now playing catch-up.

I realized the other day that in 3.5 years (give or take a couple months) I'll be finished with my 21 years of continuous schooling ... and earning less per hour than I did the summer I was 17. That's slightly depressing. To quote Scarlett O'Hara, I'll think about that tomorrow.