No, no, I'm not -quite- dead yet.

I am, however, in a fairly regular state of panic. (Also New York.) Things just haven't been coming together the way I anticipated, and so progress on Japan-related things hasn't been nearly as smooth nor as quick as I anticipated.

The biggest problems have been mostly unexpected, seemingly minor ones that have snowballed. I'm still hoping to straighten things out, but at the moment I'm worrying quite a bit about various things. Anyone wanna buy a $700 pencil, slightly used?