I've been gone for a long time... you probably didn't notice.
Well, I probably won't be back for another long stretch of time - my HDD has some pretty serious physical defects, and I was unable to do, like, ANYTHING for the last few months (or was it only weeks? the past is a blur.) So I'll be back eventually, and when I do, I'll have that writing project I promised done (sorry it's not done yet, but I couldn't get any work done on my dysfunctional computer).