Rumors of my internet death aren't really all that exaggerated

Wow, a month between posts? I'm slacking on this whole blogging thing worse than I thought. I don't foresee that changing until the semester's over, so it may yet be another month before I surface again. In the meantime, rest assured that I am alive and occasionally glancing at what folks post, but mostly buried in work and paper writing and project doing and, dare I say it, pecking a little at short story revisions here and there.