Today I made a blog.

It's the first day of the year of the ox and everything feels right, not like that sham that took place almost a month ago now.

Today I got up at 6 am to get a needle stuck into my arm and afterwords I rode my bicycle to work and the sun on the trees looked just like the sun on the trees. I rode at a leisurely clip up Valencia and accomplished the block between 26th and 25th for the very first time. In doing so I felt a newness to the city that is rare, yet at the same time almost eerie in its familiarity, like returning to your ancestral home after many years away and seeing the same siding, the same shadows, the same sky.

I arrived to work at 7:58. I was scheduled for 8:00. This never happens. I am very dependable, but only because I always arrive between 12 and 18 minutes late. Always. Today, however, was different, and it's ramifications were felt for the remainder of the day. I still feel them now. Arriving on time put me at such ease as I have not felt for some time.

Barring the last week.

More on that later, as I do not know how much I trust you all yet. But trust will come, like the spring.

I am looking forward to everything.