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Obviously I've been undergoing a rather quiet blog existence since November, most of which has been due to the job I now have. Now it would be disingenuous to suggest that I'm just too busy to write, as I have somehow managed to write in this thing for the last five or six years without ever being "too busy," so I will instead blame it on laziness and apathy. So Twitter has been bothering the everloving crap out of me: I can definitely spew out little blurbs throughout the day about what I'm thinking but I'm pretty sure that not even I would really be able to keep tabs on why any of them would matter to my general existence. My previous blog entries are generally at least long enough to warrant self-reflection. Now I'm not going to completely discount Twitter, as it has been rather important in reporting the news from Iran lately. I will, however, note how extremely self-centered the thing can be: sure you can follow other people's brief sputterings, but you're mostly posting for other people's approval. I suppose this has bothered me about blogs for a long time anyway, so the point is probably moot. The constant barrage of information is sometimes rather taxing: maybe that's why we can only appeal to each other in terms of our likes and dislikes. The most any of us can do facing this kind of onslaught is compartmentalize things into "love" or "like" or "hate."

A number of things have changed since November: Jonny and I now live together in Raleigh, which has been a lot of fun. We just got back from a mini holiday in Asheville. :)