All points of convergence have led to today, and I crawl out of the dung heap, strong once again…

I got over my nasty cold from a week ago, which gave me the strength to unpack my shit and clean my room and get set up like a human being…

My long lost computer came back to me, healthy and clean and now I have reset her and am reorganizing her so I can get back to my thesis and work in general…

My snake has finally started eating and has turned into a glutton. A few days ago she ate three baby mice in all of 30 seconds. I’m used to a snake slowly eating one meal and then hiding. This was more like an old clay-animation monster movie where the serpentine dragon busts in and picks up and swallows victim after victim and then searches for more…

Speaking of my spectacular serpent, I have finally named her. I’ve come full circle and gone back to one of the names I started with. LENORE.

For the rare and iridescent serpent whom I now name Lenore –
Nameless snake? No, nevermore.

And the Serpent, never winking, still is slinking, still is slinking
Through the shaded pall of shadow, her Hunger demanding, “More!”
And her eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the mouse-lings can’t stop squealing for fear of this carnivore;
And these mice from out that shadow of her gullet full of gore
Shall be lifted – nevermore!

And now things are back in place and I’m shaking off the dust of a slothful summer – stretching dormant muscles and unfurling creaking wings…