So that went well.

I see from my records that it's been a hundred (or, okay, two and close to a half) years since I updated this thing. It's really no longer the same thing, therefore, is it -- I ought to draw a line and say Right, starting over from here. (I have accomplished this by switching to a new template. Also I couldn't make the old one do what I wanted anymore.)

At that time, fall '03, I was in the last semester of my master's degree, which is probably why when I said "I'll rant (or rave) about things that annoy (or please) me", I promptly went ahead and did nothing of the kind. In the twenty-nine months that followed, I did some teaching, lost an aunt, finished my MA, spent a couple of months curling six days a week, worked a couple of jobs, stood up in my brother's wedding, legally changed my residence to Ohio, voted there, moved to England to begin another master's degree, watched my countrymen re-elect the most dangerous president since Nixon, joined a couple of choirs, got another couple of jobs, managed to wind up as president of my college's student association, presided over the disaffiliation of that student association from the university's student union, and met a wee baby who is not really my niece -- and am now, in (roughly) spring '06, at almost the same point relative to finishing this master's degree as I was in the fall of '03 to that one. So, what a good time to revive (or re-revive) the blog, eh?

Actually mainly it's Kate's fault that I'm back at all.