Still Alive

I wanted to take a minute to put up another of those occasional "still here" posts. Phew, setting intentions here is risky business: it does help me represent to myself a certain productive direction to continue taking in the analysis, but then life inevitably happens. The past month was basically an unending string of social engagements coupled with increased workload and responsibilities, all of which were great, but which nevertheless do a good job of derailing the writing and even the reading and thinking. That and then feeling under the weather the previous week for whatever reason - its gotten tougher to subjectively suss out what is actually happening in the midst of overexertion, possibly actually picking up a bug while traveling, interactions of wildfire smoke and long covid, and etc. My flailings and stumblings are overdetermined, much like the rest of the industrialized world's; so it goes. 

All of that said, in terms of writing I am still sticking to some of the intentions that I set, let's see, holey moley, over two months ago, and then I'll be peppering in a variety of other observations that have come up over the past couple of weeks as new information continues to come in. More soon.