Things Kind Of Suck, And There’s Nothing I Can Do About It: On Working Hard Through Some Serious B.S.

Sometimes life gives you lemons, and sometimes it gives you death, overdue taxes, anxiety, and cicadas in your pool. I think I’ll keep writing, regardless.

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There’s no truly humorous way to introduce this one, so I’ll just come out with it.

I’ve lost four family members in as many months. That’s the big one — the thing that’s weighed too heavily on my and my family’s shoulders to make wisecracks about it.

In addition to or perhaps related to this, the tax season slipped by me while I was lost in a haze, my anxiety is biting me in the ass 24/7, and I keep getting hit in the face by horny cicadas whenever I walk outside.

Okay, that last part probably isn’t related, but still. It’s annoying. Who gave them their flying license, anyway?

The point is, life has been…a lot, lately. I am truly struggling to get work done on either a professional or a personal level, and at this moment in time, there is a lot of work asking for my attention.

A lot of us are going through some pretty intense sh**storms right now, and although my advice may be limited in scope…