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I am recovering from Thanksgiving (which just means virtually no time alone for days and days  which is exhausting for an introvert) and am trying to adjust to a new contact prescription, which I got on Saturday. It’s sort of a challenge, and I may need to go back and re-adjust. Plus I need to get my head back into the fiction. So..I’ll be blogslacking today. Although I do have one megapost full of links I need to pull together – a couple of week’s worth of email contributions. But no deep thinking. As if there ever is much around here anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am recovering from Thanksgiving (which just means virtually no time alone for days and days  which is exhausting for an introvert) and am trying to adjust to a new contact prescription, which I got on Saturday. It’s sort of a challenge, and I may need to go back and re-adjust. 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