Less Than Two Years to Go!

With the start of a new school year (and the start of a new event season at the bookstore) I always get motivated to start new projects and reorganize my days. I find myself wanting to embark on new reading goals, cook more elaborate dinners, start going to the gym regularly again, and get the apartment clean and organized. Call it the wanna-be-academic version of the New Year's resolution.

But to be honest, this year my urge to start over again mostly comes from the fact that I've hardly been home for the last couple of months. Six of the last seven weekends have been spent traveling, with the last being a mammoth weekend in Seattle, where we visited family, went to an amazing wedding for a high school friend, and got stuck two nights in Chicago trying to get home after Hurricane Irene. All of these trips were wonderful and I wouldn't trade them for anything, but Labor Day weekend was the first weekend in ages when I finally had time to sleep late in my own bed, relax around the apartment, and get a few things done. It was heavenly.

So now that things are getting back to normal around here (I'm introducing Paul Farmer at a massive sold out event on Wednesday night...who ever thought I would have a life where that was normal?), I'm back on the blogosphere. I want to say I'll be blogging every Sunday night, and checking things off my Thirty Things list like crazy, but that seems overly optimistic. So let's just say I'll be around more. And if you run into me out in the world, remind me that I have a lot of cookies to bake if I'm going to finish Great Cookies. Then request your favorite kind.

Oh, and I almost forgot: Since the last time I wrote, I had my 28th birthday. Less than two years to get the rest of my list done. Yikes!