Random Bullets of Pure Blogging Gold:

• I have not started a pseudonymous blog.
• I have started seeing someone who just moved to Sparkletonia and heard about me via friends of hers who read my blog. Iowa and Missouri, I’m looking in your direction.
• Remember when I said I wished I could find a cute indie rock girl? Mission accomplished. Or rather, she found me. I’m very happy.
• I’m going to two regional eighteenth-century conferences in the coming weeks. I’m a little rusty at this. The first presentation concerns a posthumously published collection of sermons by George Whitefield. The second reflects on the intersection of the studies of oral and print cultures.
• I’ll be giving a paper (my first!) at 4C’s in New Orleans next semester: “Depression, Anxiety, and Empathy in First-Year Writing Courses.”
• Literary Theory is a blast to teach. My students rock.
• This year’s National Coming Out Day festival was a great success.
• I played a small but (I like to think) important role in getting my university to build a house for the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate.
• The Hub Bub artists continue to make life in this town more interesting than it might otherwise be.
• Thanks to all of you who commented recently. I wish I had time to respond to each comment. I’ll try to write something as time allows.
• I’m trying to figure out what role blogging will play in my (academic and personal) life. I started blogging back in 2003 in part because I felt isolated in a new city, and somewhat frustrated by the circumstances of my life. In 2007, I am surrounded by good friends, (some affiliated with my university, and some not) and so I have a network of face-to-face people with whom to interact. This changes the nature of the blogging I (might) need to do. Thinking…