You can's spell Normalcy without N-Y-C

Though it doesn't make the most interesting blog post, the last week has been an exhilarating return to normalcy for Shelley and I now that we're back in New York. Our diet has (thankfully) stabilized around our old new York staples (pasta, quesadillas, ramen, cheap chinese), my weekly reading homework has recommenced (I'm medulla oblongata-deep in Bruno Latour), and we manage to see friends now on a NY-standard weekly (rather than non-NY daily) basis. Ups and downs, it is good to be getting back in the rhythm of our life in New York.

But lest we get too comfortable, plans are already afoot to yank us back out of these urban doldrums. We're in the midst of planning trips to Boston, DC, VT, and even TX over the course of the next few months, and are contemplating a major Honeymoon trip for early/mid-May. Shelley just started a new full-time job, and I am trying to keep 2 part-time occupations in the air as a book editor/publisher/salesman and a novice webmanager.

Further afield, though not much further, is the looming presence of my M.A. thesis, and even more looming, though unfortunately not much further, is the daunting maw of job hunting/ applications.

And so this is the background, the frame, the structure of Spring 2010 in the land of the Lame Texpatriot. It's nothing novel or revolutionary, no re-invention of any circular mobility device, but it happily confronts us with some of the same old challenges and new opportunities to overcome them in different ways.

It's cold here, but then what's new?

I have a wife now, and a Wii. Beyond that, I'm just going to keep on keepin' on until such time and incident as gives me chance to do otherwise.

And if you come across anyone looking for an aspiring NGO problem solver with a background in radio operations and an interest in Central Asian politics, by all means, get their number.

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::(lame) Texpatriot