I've been off for a few weeks settling into married skin.
1. Celebrated a birthday. Had a good dinner at the trendy new spot in town, which managed to live up to its reputation.
2. Celebrated a good friend's fortieth birthday. That was a fun, if too brief, weekend trip. We all came away with a good story.
3. Decided to ring in my new year with four weeks of fitness. (I found a new gym out here in the sticks where I'm staying these days. The new gym is the answer to my prayer. I now spend approximately eighty percent less time bitching about douchebags. And my training is reinvigorated.) So it's been lots of exercise, no booze, protein, fish oil, fruit and salads.
4. It was an active summer, just as it was last year. I enjoyed it, and I'm glad it is giving way to fall.
5. I will be glad when this election is over. Just get it over with.
6. The Wire is gone. Bye-bye Wire. I'll miss you.
7. Married life is nice. I don't get to see my wife as much as I might like now that a new semester has started but such is academic life (her's mostly, mine is somewhere on the inconsequential fringes, thankfully, of academia). The fabric of daily existence looks much the same as it did before but we are officially a team now. A unified front. We are one name even. And that does make things feel different, better.
8. I hope that you are well. Odds are if you are reading this that I have been thinking of you.
