I’m back to work today, and am certainly struggling. It doesn’t help that after a couple of days off, the work is both considerable and immensely tedious. My head feels scattered, and I am unable to concentrate on anything much.
The relative by marriage in Pakistan is not doing well at all. It’s even odds, or slightly worse, that he’ll make it through.
Yesterday I spent some time reworking a short comic which was once on this website, as it is going to appear in a magazine under another name. Reworking it and declawing it as it had some features which might be controversial should they reach a wider audience. I enjoyed working on the comic, and it is really clear how the stylus has improved over the years. But declawing is always a sad business.
A good, if grim, article in Foreign Policy on the deep roots of Pakistan’s economic woes: Pakistan’s geoeconomic delusions.