Things are better. My muscular pathways have cleared and my mind has followed. As my friend Erin likes to describe it, "Mom, I'm a VEGETARIAN and I'm NOT an academic!" not that those two pieces of information go together, I think she just likes to string together a couple of my life defining moments. It's pretty funny.
This all translates to my newest realization, I am NOT an academic, nor do I want to be. I do not want to write a Thesis this year, nor anytime in my life (at least not in the next 7 or so years). I want to make art and tell stories. And that is what I am going to do. Now that I got that figured out, this will be a much happier year.