Back home again


I'm back in the Midwest, and after a debilitating migraine yesterday, back in West Lafayette today. I'm digging out of my email and trying to catch up on student work and mail and the new and interesting weed-based disaster area that is my backyard, and rather wishing I was instead back here at The Orchard in Grantchester CAMBS, waiting for divine inspiration like Rupert Brooke or Virginia Woolf. Without the early deaths, of course.

I should have something new for you to read tomorrow, though. For now, back to it...

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