Some paragraphs just require a re-read:
I am in the midst of a profound downswing online, so my current task is to recoup my backers' money, which requires roughly the same skill set as playing for yourself and for immediate profit but a slightly different psychological mindset. Today was also my fifth day off cigarettes, the third Sunday I've played without the company of marijuana, and the second Sunday based out of my temporary sublet in Westwood, where I'm staying while my girlfriend and I work out some issues.
Full story here. It's a damn good piece of writing.
P.S. I will write up where I've been the last, oh, year here sometime in the next few days.