Things have been quiet around here (the cyberspace here) because things have decidedly NOT been quiet here (the material here). It's funny though...it's been busy, sort of, but not overwhelmingly so...It's just that it's going to get much busier in the next couple of months, and I'm sort of freaking out about how busy I'm going to be that I'm not really making good use of my time preparing...

That is, I'm prepping week-by-week for the grad course (which is chugging along smoothly), and almost coasting in the Brit II course (another post about that later, maybe). I've got some big writing deadlines looming, and I'm not making much progress on them, and I've got some major service commitments (how major, I can't be sure, honestly...just intimations and ominous condolences for my time from colleagues) that will be gearing up any day now.

Plus we've got the usual fall company coming into town (which we're looking forward to, honestly), and leaves to rake, the lawn to mow, etc. etc...

So what am I going to do tonight? Read ahead, or plunk down in front of Monday Night Football? Knowing me, I'll try to do both, and end the evening fighting of a vague sense of dissatisfaction...