To start with, thanks to everyone for your patience and understanding over my hiatus. I know a lot of people have been following Body And Mind and it's hard when an author suddenly stops a story.

Long story short, the pain from the situation in my last blog entry has eased a bit, enough so that I find myself able to focus on writing again. My exams also turned out fine -- as of yesterday I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science. Wonderful as this is, it also leaves me without much to do, because I'm now officially unemployed and I can only spend so many hours a day practicing making C++ programs or writing cover letters before I can't stand to look at either of them anymore.

Bottom line: I'm only a few hundred words into the new chapter of Body And Mind at the moment, but I'm once again actively working on completing it.