Oh right, this thing...

Yes, I disappeared again. It happens, apparently.

I attribute it mostly to the quick and dirty allure of the ubiquitous social networking behemoth that is Facebook. I can dash off a little bon mot of a status and thereby unburden my soul of that which I would have heretofore left here.

Yeah, that's it.

Wellll, there's also the incredibly wild year that commenced right about the time I stopped visiting with you all, which hasn't quite ended-- even though it's been over a year.

There's the school thing (pesky little as-yet-unwritten dissertation), the ballet thing (for which I more or less forsook the dissertation thing until fairly recently), the teaching full-time thing (which is by no means new, but seems to take more time these days. Is that a good thing?), and just the overall too much in my head to get some out thing.

Rest assured, a full accounting of all the wonderful things you missed will find a place here. Right now, though, I have a proposal revision to attend to...

Hope your (almost over) 2009 is/was everything you wanted it to be. There is still time, but not much!

A little something for your trouble. The first Halloween costume I actually planned in some years: