Most of my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances found 2009 a harder year than years past. The global economic downturn and its residual effects of course weighed heavily on all of us—some more directly than others. For me, 2009 really wasn’t bad, and I’m going into 2010 with some good momentum.
There’s a very simple explanation for my year-plus absence from etherfarm. This simple explanation has fifty-seven parts, the first three of which are described briefly below:
The small army of people who have read certain articles on etherfarm, as well as anyone who knows me in real life, has pretty much written me off as a bag whore. I’m not alone. This affliction—BWS (Bag Whore Syndrome)—is common among photographers, travelers, outdoor enthusiasts, cyclists and fly-fishers. I happen to be enjoy all of those things, which perhaps makes my particular case of BWS more acute than most. …
It’s fair to say that my participation in (and to some extent, passion for) all-things-blog went on walkabout in 2005. The list of blogs I visited on a weekly basis dwindled to three, and after launching the most recent version of this site, entries destined for public consumption went instead to a folder named “Posts” or directly to the Trash. I tend to sculpt entries over a period of time rather than fire off fleeting, inconsequential whims, and I suppose a byproduct of that methodology is, among other things, a folder of 43 entries which have never seen the light of day.
Apart from a three-week stay in rural Illinois, my extended hiatus from this site can be attributed to a number of relatively large projects bearing down on me right now: my Ph.D. qualifying exams (late May), upcoming wedding (late June), and my dissertation prospectus (August). Much of the last month has been spent in Illinois at the farm, planning the wedding and studying (in my own way) for the exams. Poog will be finishing up a Master’s degree thesis in the coming months, so it’s extremely fortunate that neither Poog nor I lack the desire for a big-to-do kind of wedding. …
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