Lately my life has shifted back and forth between trying to maintain what may amount to a pipe dream degree and getting sucked into the internet and video games to preserve what little remains of my sanity. As of late, however, I have found the latter two activities wanting on several occasions which leaves my staring at a computer screen with little energy to do anything else. I have tried to use these opportunities to get back to writing but its hard when I find it near impossible to get away from the depressing fact that I'm trapped in a piss ant city that barely qualifies as such surrounded by a bunch of drunken degenerates who I feel about as much connection with as an ordinary person would feel towards a chimpanzee. Anyways, I'll try to get some writing in between finals and over the last few weeks of the year, but I don't know if I will be able to accomplish much.