Author's Note:

This lapse in time is inten­tional. It's not that there was noth­ing worth men­tion­ing, and it's not that I've avoided talk­ing about things that have hap­pened. The sim­ple fact is that after a year of keep­ing this jour­nal online, I pon­dered whether or not to keep on going. Since you're read­ing this, it should be rather obvi­ous that I've made the deci­sion to con­tinue to make this a pub­lic work. I sup­pose it's a rather masochis­tic way to share my feel­ings on the world, but what the hell? It's more fun this way.

Any events that have hap­pened dur­ing this time period will, I'm sure, be explained at some point in the fol­low­ing entries, unless I've for­got­ten them. So don't worry — you haven't missed much. Wel­come to year 2wo …