This blog is like a friend. Only, it's kind of a mutual friend, to anyone that reads it.  And so when I've ignored the friend for oh, say - two months, you feel stupid calling that friend up and being like, "How's..you know...how's your life, man?" and you have to go through that whole awkward first ten minutes before you really settle in to old times. 

So I told myself I needed an exercise to get back into writing again, and it started with the idea that I would produce 26 mini-entries, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was all going to happen by Monday [tomorrow]. It's like how when I decide I want to lose weight I tell myself I'm going to eat 3423 veggies a day and run for 2938423 miles, and then on the first day someone convinces me to go to Qdoba and I can't even find my sports bra.