I love your new picture.

Hope all is well, my friend.

It is intimidating, I know.

If you need to talk, you know where to find me.

No can do. It's pretty much the way all the free blogs work.

Sorry.

It was a chapter of the dissertation, that I'm turning into a journal article. So it's part of the dissertation, and yeah: eventually it will be a book. We'll see what happens with that though. Once the diss is done, I'll post about it - and I'm sure we can work out a way to sling folks a copy if they are so interested.

The way it works is you only submit it to one place at a time. So in about two months I'd like to have the rewrites on this done, and I'll send it to another journal. We shall see. I was bummed at first, but now I'm just invigorated to try this new crap out.

Nothin wrong with Kid Rock, my friend. He's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, as a matter of fact; no matter how shitty I'm feeling, "Cocky" always makes me feel like I'm sitting on the top of the world

And, no, sometimes we don't move that far forward. I actually think that thats sometimes a good thing, actually. Sometimes there is no feeling greater than being able to reconnect with your younger self.
I remember throwing some Offspring on a few months back, first time I'd heard "Americana" in years. Immediately it brought back memories of listening to that album in my car, as my cousin and I were speeding out of the High School parking lot, on a mission to rent movies or what ever it was that we did after school

I didn't like that at all. Hey ho.

I love your new profile pic more than I can explain.