Hey, we can trade. It's not more than I wanted to know--I lost my partner and he cut off my contact with his little one after almost four years of dating him, which is just about as agonizing as having a limb chewed off slowly, met someone new, moved South to live with New Someone in the middle of the forest in Virginia (which is WEIRD, compared to East Coast city life) and am trying to kind of find a new rhythm. Life *does* seem really difficult for a lot of people lately. I injured my knee quite seriously, so I've been out of the dojo for most of half a year; I've had no money for food or cell phone or asthma meds for most of the last year and a half, but--two days ago I got into the dojo again, and today everything hurts just right.

So it does get better, maybe? I hope your own rough patch evens out pretty quick, or I might need to send you a hammer...

(White men! The most oppressed minority!)