It seems like some sort of update is in order, so this is a very quick one to explain where I've been, how I've "fallen off the rails" and where I'm going from here. My great intentions for November fell apart when around November 14th, I started experiencing severe back pain. Lower back pain is an incredibly common thing, and I have experienced it on and off since my very early 20s. Sometimes it's a creeping thing that leaves me slightly disabled all day, and sometimes it's a severe problem that happens suddenly and incapacitates me entirely for a day or two. This was, somehow, a combination of the two. It came on fairly slowly and some days the pain has been almost immobilizing, whereas others are merely twingey and sore.