You know that feeling when you step back into your house after being away for an extended period of time? That's sort of how I feel. It was a good week - I'm glad I took it. For a full week, I didn't log onto the site, didn't check my counter, and didn't visit my reader (bloglines) at all. Well, maybe once or twice ;). But perspective is good, the blogosphere got along quite nicely without me, and I feel somewhat less compulsive about the whole thing, so I suppose it was time well spent, or not spent as the case may be.

I'm woefully behind on my daily blog reading - the list to the right, by the way, is always current and reflective of what I'm actually reading, even if I comment sparsely. It's not as extensive as some, but it's still a full plate for me; at this point, it will probably take a bit of time to get caught up. As far as this humble blog goes, Ross tagged me with a meme that I'll try to post in the next few days. I have a few books that I've been wanting to comment on, and I've been wanting to get back into some more creative pieces of late, something that I've done far too little of in recent weeks. I had wanted to get in on Steve's group blog through Foster's Celebration of Discipline, but I may have to forego that seeing the syllabus for my class that just began.

At any rate - it's good to be back.