A few changes around here

So this may not be news to you, but… I haven’t been posting lately. Perversely, I tend to blog the most when I have the least time – that is, when I’m producing the most output, teaching and writing and grading and being graded. This calendar year I haven’t been putting out much (so to speak), with the exception of my dissertation proposal, which at this time is still floating in departmental neverwhere waiting for professorial comment (which they must be prodded into providing, and our adept cat-herder is being transferred to another department. Oh, academia!). Instead, I’ve been reading. Thinking. Outlining. I’ve been… stewing.

But this week I’m meant to both complete an article for submission and show an outline of my first dissertation chapter to a graduate advisor, so how do I cope? By revamping my blog.

I thought I might as well use it for the purpose to which it is best suited – scooping the froth from the top of a busy brain. Some of it will be work-related: I’ll post things that interest me or puzzle me, or my own ideas when I just need to get out of my own head and see if this stuff translates to the real word. Much more of it will be food-related: I receive a weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) box, which I HIGHLY recommend doing, as it allows me to eat vegetables pretty much all the time and forces me to combine them in new ways. Some of these concoctions are not fit for public consumption, but others are kind of tasty and I am capitulating to a desire to post and receive recipes on this blog. They will be labeled “reckless” so you are warned that I don’t really measure and sometimes forget steps, and I think you can substitute pretty much anything in it for something else.

I also finally got a feed reader so I can do a much better job of noticing when your blog is updated. (Sorry, Richard!)

Here’s what you can do for me: say hi. Been blogging lately without my comment? Pointedly remind me; I’ll drop in. Haven’t been blogging? Well, why not?