You may have noticed on various places in the Wired that I've gone from using my legal name to Jei D. Marcade. The reasons for this are manifold, the most important being that there are eighty thousand frillion bajillion people named Jessica Lee, including at least one erotic paranormal romance novelist and four people who went to my schools and/or saw my dentist.


The second is that almost everyone who has known me on a friendly basis has called me Jei for nearly a decade, and I figured it would make the most sense as a nom de plume.


So there's that. 


For the past few weeks I've been leading a rather laid-back, shiftless existence, getting by on the money I have saved up from my last job and mostly lolling about in my pajamas and reading comics all day. After having become accustomed to years of what seemed like perpetual motion, constant stress, and near-lethal doses of sleep deprivation, sometimes I get a little stir-crazy, but there's one thing I will never get sick of: