Blog 2.0

As is obvious to anyone who has checked this space in the last month and a half, activity hereon has been something less than prolific.  Rest assured, Your Humble Narrator has not died.  But, it has become obvious that a change in format is needed. 

In Olden Times, when Your Humble Narrator served as a professor, this blog made for an effective and efficient diversion in the midst of a long block of time when there was nothing pressing.  It served in other words as an effective mental break, allowing a profusion of overwrought prose to serve as a mental release from long periods of concentration.  Brain refreshed, work would resume. 

But, on July 1, your Humble Narrator accepted an interim job in Administration.  First lesson of administration:  there are many meetings.  Many meetings.  The meetings themselves are not necessarily dull—free tip: it helps when you get to set the agenda for a meeting.  But, gone are the days of long blocks of uninterrupted time.  I now have many short blocks of time, but apparently in the last month, I have not had many days in which I thought, This would be a good time to ramble on about a book I read.

Hence it has become apparent that with a new job there necessarily needs to be a new blog format.  So, Blog 2.0 is going to be the remarkably brief post.  We’ll see how it works out.  (The “we” in that sentence being, of course, “I” and some imaginary reader.)