I’ll be back here around the beginning of April, and maybe I’ll have repaired the archives by then. Maybe not.

Thanks for the nice notes, I’m still checking email and I think I’ve almost caught up with my replies. I can’t type much at a time, so don’t be offended if you get back 10 words when normally you’d get a manifesto. Nothing personal.

It’s been strange making this sudden transition to being unmoored, totally dependent on other people for everything, and now it has grown very likely that I will soon be without health insurance. I’ve officially withdrawn from grad school and shelved all my projects, but I guess the upside of being this sick is that I don’t miss any of these things right now. It could be much worse, however, and I know that. I do have to say that the motto of the British Arthritis Research Campaign is quite brilliantly on the mark: Arthritis may not kill you but it can take your life.

I’ll be back when I’m (hopefully) feeling a bit better, or at least feeling less sorry for myself – I know a large part of that is the horrendous array of awful drugs I have to take, and then the horrendous array of drugs I have to take to cope with the side effects of the primary drugs.

In the meantime, go watch the Happy Tree Friends.