New Year, New Post

I must apologise for the lack of activity over the past couple of months. My workload, in combination with my teaching duties, has rendered it very difficult for me to find the time to really write anything of much interest. Not that there haven't been interesting things happening - rather, that I either couldn't find the time to post, or, if I could, that I was too damn tired and apathetic to do so.

I'm back in New York now, after a couple of weeks in Cambridge recuperating from an extremely gruelling semester. I basically did nothing, apart from a quick trip up north to see my grandmother, and that's the way I wanted - perhaps needed - it to be. Didn't even really go out on New Year's Eve, preferring instead to drink a couple of beers and watch the festivities on the telly.

I'm not sure it's worth going into much detail as to what happened in the last couple of months; aside from being buried in the library, Kate and I did manage a couple of trips out of New York, once to Cooperstown, New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a couple of fine breweries, and then down to South Carolina for Thanksgiving with Kate's parents. Beyond that, I have had my nose at the grindstone teaching and trying to get my dissertation project into some semblance of order. I have enjoyed the teaching immensely, though it has been an incredible amount of work.

Anyway - I'm back now, will try to keep my post count up (I'm not teaching this semester, so that might make it easier), and would like to wish any of my readers who might still remain a very Happy New Year.