Thank you for your indulgence! We’re back to our regularly schedule programming. I didn’t waste the five weeks off that I had, don’t worry – I’ve put up a new site, gotten two new blogs off the ground, figured out a direction for my career, gotten caught up in my art, and rewritten 2 chapters of a novel-in-progress. Not bad, considering I also wrote six midterms and made three separate trips out of town.

Here’s what’s new for the blog:

1. Email notification. If you want to get an email from me every time I update my blog, leave me a comment and I’ll add you to the list. Updates will happen about 3-4 times a week – I’m going to aim for 3 main posts and one link dump.

2. New design & “about me”. For those of you that visit the site through Google Reader, I’ve put up a slightly new design for the site, and I’ve also written a more succinct, less cutesy “about me” for new visitors. I’d love to hear your thoughts on both.

3. New Feature. I’m starting a new feature in addition to my weekly link dumps that I think I’ll call “everything else”. This will probably be every month, and it’ll be a summary update of what I’m doing elsewhere on the internet, including writing, art, photography, and just general life updates.

Here’s what’s new for me:

Life & Love: This is my new writing Tumblr. I try to post vignettes as often as I can. I’m working on a longer-term writing project, and this is my way of getting back into the habit of writing. If you like my writing, check it out!

An Internet Hide-out: This is my new website. Rather than try to host all my writing and art and projects on one site, I’ve decided to make my main website a portal that links to everything else. (Psst, there’s an Easter Egg on the site. See if you can figure it out.)

I think that’s about it. Yay! I’m glad to be posting again.