hardness

Well. What a bunch of self-pitying bullshit that was. ::snicker:: While there was truth to it, a day later it feels like writing that isn't more than empty calories, as it were. It felt good to articulate the notion, elaborating a bit on it, and — this is key — concealing the coagulant particulars. But at the end of the day (yesternight, and 24 hours later) I can see how truly dimwitted it was; I suppose it validated its own damn self, one might say. [ self-flagellation, ironically, in progress... ]