Oh yeah... "real life" can be SUCH a bitch. Tell me about it. *grumbles*

And I'm probably going to re-read Gulfport, heartwrenching though it is. Also, it totally has the effect of making you want to quit any attempts at fanfiction; why bother, if you can never be half as good?... But then, if everybody felt that way, Anne Rice would have quit writing long ago...;P