happy new gregorian year, more or less <3

I intended to be done with the thesis this calendar year, at multiple points. A lot of my rituals and habits have stepped quietly back over the past few months, and one of them is going to be looking back, tonight, on things read and watched and learned this year, but: I'm here, in the dark, with the lights, and things take longer than you expect but you keep going and eventually you get there, and I see you, and you're not alone.