Update for August 2015 · 7:30am Sep 5th, 2015
I'm still alive, and still enjoying reading about ponies; that's the good news.
The less-good news is that I haven't made significant progress on writing and I don't expect to soon. This is primarily due to a combination of job-search fatigue and burnout.
(This has also been affecting my pre-reading time; apologies to iisaw for the delay.)
This will resolve itself in due time, no worries.