Construction-Free and Blogging Again

Dear Reader: Worry not! I am still alive. And I have no intention of abandoning this blog.

As some of you may know from the letters I have written you and/or the conversations we had while I was home for Christmas, November was a particularly rough month in the life of this particular PCV, so I wasn’t really in the mood to post about my life in cyber-space. And it is a truth universally acknowledged that once one falls off the ‘routine update’ wagon it is hard to get back on.

So I apologise for my absence.
(I also would like to apologise to myself for making a Jane Eyre AND a Pride& Prejudice allusion in the space of 100 words. Sigh.)

Why have I returned (at last!) you may ask?
I’ve relocated to a house that is blissfully construction free - equipped with gas heat and a four-burner stove to boot! (And my daily routine now involves an hour and a half commute.)

So I shall endeavour to summarise the last three months for your enjoyment and enlightenment as soon as possible. I will post current and past entries simultaneously until I am caught up. So the entries about November, December and January will be subtitled: The Back Log. And the current ones (February) will look like usual. I trust that you are capable of dealing with this tear in the time-space continuum. (I feel that a Hitch- Hiker’s Guide reference at this juncture would redeem me, but I find myself lacking. Sad.)

Also this proposed renaissance is scheduled to commence after I return from the AZ7 mid-service conference in Baku the week after next. I am up in my eyeballs in paperwork and personal reflection for aforementioned conference until then. I’ve always been a procrastinator. Oops.