Everything is working out! The disease thing seems to be on the ebb. I actually ate pizza today. Go team me! I never appreciated being able to eat food enough. It’s actually pretty integral to my happiness, which probably means that I’ll be a highly crotchety and ungrateful old person.

Little brother and I are going to head to the local grocery store to buy him an industrial-sized pack of Nerds. This is an enduring birthday tradition. I’ve never been much for traditions — they tend to be pro-establishment and therefore at odds with the determinedly indie ideals I think are in now — but this one’s pretty good and cost-effective besides.

i’m in a pretty music-y mood. Eels!

Cousin just left for Lubbock (I think it was), and he’s going to be in France imminently. Exciting, yes? Best part: he left his film camera for me. I think it might be to make up for whatever craters he’s been leaving in my moral landscape with his bad role-modelling. Terrible role-modelling.