Re: economic unemployability: you and me both, brother. Let me know when you get that one figured out. Maybe we should start a crime syndicate. Except I think both of us are a wee bit too conventionally honest. Bah.

Some days, though, it sounds like a freaking awesome idea.

Re: showers: bathrooms have always been a great retreat for me. I grew up in a house where I didn't get a lot of privacy, but head to the bathroom and turn on the fan and it's like you're in your own private world. You can't hear shit. And water, water has always been good for me. Hiding in the shower or bathtub and feeling warm and buoyed up. It's good. When I don't have to keep myself on some reasonable sleep cycle for work I do a lot of writing and showering in the middle of the night myself.