...until further notice, I suppose. Thanks so much for your words of encouragement. I think that the interaction also helps me as a novelist, spending so many hours alone in my own little universe. It is at once both enriching and disorienting.

One of the main reasons I blog, of course, is that it is one of a handful of tools with which I can document my random thoughts in a virtual, infinitely accessible and searchable format. Kind of brilliant, actually. I am still trying to understand Twitter in this regard, am not yet fully imposing my every thought on the world.

If you measure the ratio of time I spend blogging to writing these days, it's become quite pitiful. Of course, I am still trying to recover my netbook. As a solution, one of my Twitter friends suggested I blog less. I think that is a very good idea. However, lately I also find myself with too much time to kill at work. (C'est la vie.)