I’m so burnt out that I just want to shut the window, drink some tea, smoke a cigarette and go to bed. I’m just a big ole blank, but I do want to say that I’m in a better mood the last few days. The two big projects I’ve been working on are ready for phase II, and I’m ready for them. Others may not be. . . and that’s been the real crank in my brain the last few weeks. . . others.

Others are so hard, sometimes. They exhaust me so deeply, with their shenanigans and bananagains. But I was thinking the other day about how I complain about Others so much, how I don’t really like people and I wish I didn’t have to deal with them. But then I thought of a world without Others. It didn’t take me a second to say, yeah, okay. I’ll deal with them. Because really, they are all Gifts. At the end of the day, what else is there?

I want to talk more about Gifts soon. But right now, seriously, I’m so exhausted I’m staring, unblinking, at the screen. This weekend, be Gifts to one another, you no-neck monsters. Behave.