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