Hi everyone,<br/><br/>I’m going to be taking a school enforced hiatus of indeterminate length.  With any luck, this’ll only last 1-3 weeks, but we’ll see.<br/><br/>I’m sorry to do this, but after one day of class, school’s already kicking my proverbial ass.  Basically, three days a week, I’m teaching three classes.  And I’m taking two doctoral level classes, including one that is a pre-pre-dissertation course.  On top of this, the first class meeting tonight made me realize how far I am behind where I should be in terms of qualifying exam and dissertation prep stuff (like my advising committee, which consists of one person right now, lining up by exam proctors - all three of them for F/SF, Renaissance, and Medieval Vernacular literature - and confirming my dissertation committee, including a firmer plan of the committee director and my specific topic).  And, as an example of that pre-pre-dissertation class, we’re starting off “slow” but in two weeks we have 9 chapters of two books and 4 articles to read plus a written assignment, and prep questions for faculty interviews due.  This appears to be an average week.  :(<br/><br/>Anyway, hopefully I’ll be back soon.  If not, then I’ll definitely be back in December at the latest.<br/><br/>-Van