I am awake at 1 in the morning on Friday, a workday. I cannot sleep for reasons that I cannot put down in words here now, nor would you understand if I did.

My last actual post here was written about 9 years ago, several months after I graduated from Penn, several months into my job as a research fellow in Temasek Labs at NUS. So much has happened since then, so much has changed. The me who wrote the last post in 2010 would look at the me of today utterly confounded, wondering how I got there from here.

I'm a professor now, on the tenure track. I've gone through times of deep despair and times of soaring joy. Thinking back over the last nine years, I think I have Lived, and I am satisfied and proud that I have been able to do so.

Blogging is really old-fashioned, I know. But I look back on the posts I wrote a decade ago, and I feel fondly towards how I was then, and I feel glad that i have this record of Me in my 20s to look back on. I think I would like to start again, at this point in my life where things are in flux, where things are old, and new. Let's see how it goes.