i owe you all a real update (for your class breaks.) i also owe you pictures---blurry, drunkenly taken pictures. thanks a lot, drunken strangers (and i thought this type of person was without flaw.)
"...when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born--and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible."