reintroduction

i bet you thought i wasn't coming back, right? wrong--i thought about you every day, almost.

i didn't mean to sound so cryptic in my last post before my sabbatical*. it just came out that way because i kept forgetting to hit the button that said "publish" in the edit field for the entry that would have allayed any fears for my well-being.

apologies/excuses finished, here follows my update.

last spring my teaching contract ended and i didn't renew it, so i moved back in with my family for the summer. it wasn't nearly the disaster i had expected, but it wasn't quite delightful. i worked forty hours per week in a local business, while looking for almost any job anywhere else and applying to grad school programs. meanwhile, i was supposed to help my family move into a new house. you probably won't be surprised to learn that i failed in every one of these endeavors.

now, many months later, i'm in the city and able to plan my life in (relative) peace**. what will follow, in this blog, will be a series of posts that exist in two different time periods, now and then. i hope i remember "then" well enough to do it justice.

*has a nicer ring than abandonment
**pun

out with the old, in with the older

as some of you might know, my favorite blog no longer exists. another good one has replaced it in my favorites list, though not in my heart. dan, i like you a lot, but tcb, i love you.

bringing messy back

hey everyone! i hope you're all ready for me to continue my scatter-brained posts. life has been crazy since may of last year: i've moved four times and have begun and finished a relationship.

don't worry that you're the only ones that i've neglected--i sent out my holiday cards on friday of last week. i wished the recipients a merry christmas, happy new year and happy epiphany and still managed to be late. i'll fill you in as much as possible.