Busy Being Born

I'm not going to write one of those lame posts in which I apologize for my lack of posts and promise to do better next time. No. What I will say is that the lack of posts is due to the fact that I have been incredibly busy over the last few months. "Busy?" you ask. Yes, indeed.

In early August, Catharine and I packed up the car, wished our subletters a farewell, and headed off to Boston (first stopping at the wedding of some grad school friends in New Jersey). We spent the next few weeks planning, ahem, our wedding, which was absolutely lovely--we got married on August 29 in Catharine's old childhood home in Belmont, MA. My grandparents performed the ceremony. Our friends Mike and Ellie played jazz standards and bossa nova beforehand. Our friend Susan played Brahms during the ceremony. My sister decorated the wedding cake. Catharine's family friend Izzie did all of the cooking. And the evening ended with an absolute throw-down dance party, with jams curated by myself, my lovely wife, and my best man Matt. You really should have been there.

Since then, though, I would say that I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off, but that would be disrespectful to chickens everywhere, who, generally speaking, are far less frantic than I have been. I'm teaching a writing course at Penn on Mondays and Wednesdays, I'm commuting back and forth between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh every week, I'm trying to keep working on my dissertation, and I'm applying for tenure-track jobs, post-docs, and evening and weekend shifts at Famous Footwear.

And I'm saving all of my best writing for my dissertation. I can't waste any of my bons mots on a non-paying audience these days, I just don't have enough to go around. So you may be stuck, for a while, with quotes from articles that I read and find interesting, along with the occasional dispatch from Dissertation Land. Oh, and when my Wynton article finally gets published (it's at the publisher now, I've even got the online tracking information and everything), there will probably be a link to that, too. That's all I can handle for the time being. Content yourselves with knowing that I'm working hard behind the scenes, trying to figure out tribute bands and explain them to everyone else. It will be worth it, I promise.