Happy December!

Apparently I have not been here in way too long, and I'm sorry; I think I have read everything in my feed, but I haven't managed to comment on it all (and won't).

My semester is drawing to a close. We're in finals week now; I've done most of the grading for term and am just waiting for a last thing. So now I can get to all the things I've put off, and that turns out to be quite a lot: a dissertation prospectus (not put off much, fortunately), reviews due to presses (one getting quite late), a chapter (slightly late), a longer project I'm writing with someone. . . . I enjoy all these things individually, but it's feeling like a lot right now. (Well, some I enjoy more than others.) Things at my university have been terribly nerve-racking: multiple big initiatives imposed from above; not only a lack of support but active interference in things the department needs to function; and just a really difficulty semester for an awful lot of people, students, staff, and faculty. I've been fairly lucky.

Progeny is home! She had her last final, and Brilliant Husband drove There and Back Again, and now she's hiding out in her room as if she never left.