It's been a while since I've written much of anything. That has a little bit to do with some sort of writer's block, but it's mostly that I have been too busy to do much of anything creative in my free time. My free time mostly consists of reading hundreds upon hundreds of pages of literature for school and writing really pathetic papers, and sleeping when I can. I'm hoping that all this reading will inspire me to write (it has certainly increased my desire to write, but not so much my ability thus far), and someday soon I will be forcing myself to do some sad exercises to get started again. I'm starting to feel stagnant and routine, uncreative and unoriginal, and it's bothering me. Also, I need to start getting inspired career-wise, so that, once I'm done with all the reading and the writing of papers (which is coming up far too quickly for my sanity), I will actually have something to do besides work in a kitchen and serve people coffee. What that something is remains to be seen, but I'm hoping there is....something.