This blog, that is. It's just that right now, most of the action is going on over here: Set Your Guts on Fire. Grad school is going well; the second quarter's been rough overall but is ending with a little less panic than the first one. I go back down to Santa Barbara next week to see my school peeps for 10 days, which is a very welcome reunion, and I'm looking forward to dreamwork and film classes for the fall quarter, which sounds really interesting. Even the research class seems to have a new twist on presenting the essentials; we get Tao of Writing instead of Elements of Style, which must count for something.

Other than that, most of the summer has been spent canning up a storm; we have enough jam, chutney, and relish to last many years (or at least one solstice gift for each of our friends), and we've also ben experimenting with goat cheese and fermenting (sauerkraut & kimchi have worked out well and we're trying out dill pickles currently). I've even seen most of the big summer movies. Free tip: if you have a chance to see Mamma Mia as a sing-along, go to that show; we did and it was so much more fun not to have to sing along quietly.

And that's the summer so far; it looks like I'll finally get to go on a work-sponsored trip in the fall, to Prague, so I'm looking forward to that. Otherwise, it's pretty much all about school and making sure I get to see Deb and my friends once in a while. Oh, and that work thing. No wonder I don't sleep much...