The year is drawing to a close, and the title of this post doesn't refer to my or our intent to discontinue our yearly recap posts or anything like that; we're reporting as normal (sort of) and it's our lives that feel like this was the year that everything just kind of... stopped.

There's our former job, you see. ( Former? Ah, yes, about that.... )

The year is drawing to a close, presumably because it finally ran out of ways to hurt and kill people and has nowhere else to go, though I fully expect it to wring every last tear it can from us all in its final few moments. They're going to do the New Year's ball drop and some celebrity you really like will die of COVID when the countdown is at 1 ( Read more... )

The year is drawing to a close, at long last. In the last days of 2018, I complained about the time vortex in which the year lasted at least three years, yet somehow still managed to blindside me with every "wait, it's time to do X already?" milestone. It was my hope that said vortex would be lifted and 2019 would proceed as normal ( Read more... )

The year is drawing to a close, and we can all only hope that it takes the bizarre time vortex we've all been caught in with it. Much like
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(Subtitle is a lyric taken from a song from an upcoming album I'm working on. Details within ( Read more... )