I'm back!

Well, I'm back and blogging again! I know it has been almost a year since my last entry, which is unforgivable. And it's not as though I haven't seen some weird stuff on the subway since then. But I've decided that I no longer want to restrict myself to writing about one thing. Sometimes I want to write about lots of different things, largely having to do with life here in NYC, where the bizarreness goes well beyond the MTA most of the time. Sometimes I want to write about books or films or places I've traveled. So while I'm leaving up the old entries, I'm going to be branching out on the blog, and hopefully writing more! We'll see what it turns into.

So, what have I been up to, and what has prompted a return to blogging? Here is a short summary of the year I've had -

 I have traveled to Hilton Head; Las Vegas; Paris; Marseille; Geneva; Neuchatel; Lucerne; Rome; and Chicago. I also climbed to the top of my first real, official mountain! I have started the job market for my field, which is excruciating, stressful, and time consuming. I have been teaching a few classes and writing my dissertation (I won't ever be blogging about my professional life, in the interest of not ruining my career before it's fully launched). I also got a new roommate and redecorated my apartment, got a slow-cooker after getting food poisoning from a Chinese restaurant, and I've become a pretty decent cook! I've also ridden a lot of trains, buses, and even a helicopter. I may blog about some of these experiences sometime. But with all that's happening, something had to give (more than one thing, really) and the blog was just a casualty of a very busy and stressful year.

 I'm no less busy or stressed now than I've been for most of the year - in some ways I'm more so. But, sometimes I do need to write stuff to keep my sanity, and occasionally I want to share it, and I don't think Facebook or Livejournal are always the most ideal platforms for doing so.  I also have a specific thing that I want to write, which I'll be posting very soon - but I didn't want to just do that without explaining the changes to the blog for anyone who might come here and see the old content and be really confused.

I'm keeping the title, though - "Signal Failures" can apply to so very many situations!