gabe, that is what we call a good start. there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time you haven't written and how crappy your first attempts will be... for instance, i have gone over a year without writing a story... i know full well that the first two i write will read worse than harry potter out-takes and be absolute crap. but after that, the next thing i write might be half-decent. but if i take another month or two off, i'll write crap again the first time i try. we're like shrimp, gabe, little shrimp and the shrimp poop under our transparent skin is the crap writing that we must expel before we can truly take flight!

in other news, the dentist pretty much got me stoned on nitrous today, it was really a messed up experience... voices and noises were in slow motion and i was pretty out of it. on the down side, it still hurt bad for the first half hour.