good start

Not much time to spend in blogland lately. I've been getting over being sick, preparing an essay for a grad school application, providing editorial assistance on an avalanche of MBA program application essays from a coworker friend . . . and I just started a new job (different department, same company) this week. I don't expect the new job to bring me happiness per se, but for the past four years I've been about as miserable, under my old manager, as one can be at work without sustaining long-lasting psychic scars; and so I'm happy at least for the change. Bad news is I'll be required to attend a NASCAR race in Vegas. Seriously.

In other news (which probably isn't news to any reader of this blog):

Laura Carter's blog has migrated over to typepad. By the way, am I the only one who missed Laura's appearance at No Tell Motel (check the archives)?

Gary Norris' post on Ocean's Twelve, education, and publishing (among other things) is very much worth reading.

And Thomas Basbøll is back with two new posts (at least since I last visted), Beyond Language? and On Paper.

Oh, and I've been having a great deal of fun listening to WFMU at work (many thanks to Jean of OKIR for the reference to this marvelous station).

There is, undoubtedly, a lot more out there worthy of note, but this is far as I've been able to get tonight.