a re-introduction

i knew it had been awhile since i last posted here, but until i entered the site just now i didn't realize it had been a full three and a half months. wow. sorry to those of you who've checked in for updates during that time and been crushed with disappointment to find the same old photo of my marriage-proposal-via-slip-of-binder-paper. thank you to my devoted admirers who continue to check in to the site despite my lapses in updating!

so why haven't i kept up with the blog this spring? partly it's for the reasons you'd expect: i've been busy with school, weekend jaunts to various parts of sicily, the time-consuming chores of everyday life (side note: i spend more time cleaning than a stepford wife. perhaps it hasn't made me neater, exactly, but living with italian girls has turned me into an honest-to-god, larry david-grade germaphobe. well, the italians, and maybe also the fact that i've caught every cold/flu/virus imaginable during my time here). and as you'd expect, updating the blog is a perennial item on my to-do list, but it always seems to slip to the bottom, nudged out by preparing lesson plans, cleaning (naturally), going to the gym, going on some sort of outing, sleeping.

but i want to tell you about these last few months of school! and springtime in palermo! and roommates and friends and excursions! so i'll be back very soon, with much more to say.

stay tuned!