*warily* if i call for pep talks i know very well many of you think that means you are to write me an email in the choonping manner i.e. "full of tough love and prognostications of doom." (thanks julian, that says it exactly.) so here's a very specific request: write me something along the lines of how i'm a clever little girl and the light of your lives and would therefore be wasted as an unattractive splat on the pavement and that pineapple tarts and hanuta minis and other nice things are on the way, so hang in there, and we all love you don't you know, and i shall pretend to believe you and struggle on.