Contrary to popular belief

Edit: I have been informed, yet again, by the Mango family matrons that I share too much personal information on GM. The following post has been re-edited to appease them conceal my identity.

I am not dead.

In fact, I am very much alive. Since we last spoke, and in no particular order I have:

• gotten a new job that I love
• seriously asked my parents about sex for the first time
• eaten fat free yogurt for the first and last time
• finished the summer term at work
• gone house hunting
• snared me a nice basement apartment
• said a tearful goodbye to the Intern and acquired a new roomie
• flown to Toronto for two days
• bailed my way out of my first Toronto flood/tornado/summer hail storm/whatever that was
• squinted my way through my second Toronto blackout
• :edit: travelled via nonspecific transportation to a famous beach in the southern part of a country that shall remain nameless
• :edit: decided to drive six hours from the famous beach to another unnamed tourist beach spot because our hotel in the first beach town was roughly the size and quality of a goat dropping
• gone surfing for the first time

but only if by surfing you mean letting the Pacific Ocean throw me about for hours while in the general vicinity of a surf board.

~failure to follow g. mango will result in the loss of privileges