Concerning the Content Outage

I am not dead, but I am very, very busy and (more pertinently) very, very preoccupied.  It is hard for me to follow a thought from one end of a sentence to the other.  Consequently posting has been impossible for the last week, although there are a few drafted sentence fragments.  This might be a good time to make a virtue of necessity and turn this blog into a game of Finish the Sentence, or it might be a good time to give up and work on the looming papers, the prospect of which has already, by the end of the first week of classes, made me panic.  Nine weeks or so to go.

So I was thinking of writing a paper on...

But this raises irksome questions of...

And then there's the larger aspect of trends within the discipline: ...

And the narrower aspect of my command of...

Delicious salads can be procured at...

Delicious salads without a risk of passive construction will leap into your mouth at...

Thank goodness for that, anyway, and for...

And for...

And although I have been guilty of procrastinating on many occasions, reading Dante may be my best excuse yet.