And thank you so much for joining us once again.

It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast.

I am the host and author of the piece you're going to hear today, The Great Night.

Hi.

Missed you guys.

Last update was recorded before I came back from my birthday month off, feeling very well-rested,

feeling very excited to be back and digging into things, and just getting back to my normal, or I guess, not so normal routine.

Hope you well, hope everything's good on your side. You guys send me questions and you prod and you know that I'm kind of a private person.

I keep to myself and I'm pretty quiet or at least I try to be.

I'm either sucking up too much oxygen in the room or too little.

That's how I feel about myself at least.

And I quite like being silent and I quite like being alone, but I have to admit lately I've been a little bit

itching for company. And so it's been nice to try and get back into work and trying to get back

into a rhythm and just try and slowly but surely get back into the world. I record this.

I was going to say I write this. I record this to you in pretty good shape and spirits.

I've actually been doing a lot of just walking now that the heat is not so excruciating and it's

not so constant, it'll still

occasionally hit 90 or above, you know, 95 or so. But as opposed to earlier this year,

where it would hit 90 and then 95 or 100 and just stay there. It would just stay there for 10, 12,

14 hours. Ah, and I've discovered that

that, unfortunately, is what I cannot deal with, because it can hit 90 or 95 and I don't even

want to turn on the AC. It's true. A couple hours of it being hot just makes it so much nicer

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