so much to write, but i'm waiting for the work to subside

yes, exactly. many things have happened, but i've been lax in chronicling them, and now i'm swamped with grant applications and last-minute interviews and hurried visits to archives and the like. so dear blog, you will have to wait at the foot of the stairs, as it were, until after i get back to chicago. I should also mention that in my five minutes of spare time, i've been reading umberto eco's foucault's pendulum, and it's quite good. okay, that's all for now.