After a roughly three-year hiatus I’ve decided to start blogging again. The reasons aren’t that complicated or interesting; since starting a PhD program last year my already meager social world has contracted to the size of a petri dish, and the hours that I don’t spend with either my wife or the books are fewer and further in between. And since I never became an afficianado of the social media that the youngsters use, I’ll stick to what I know and go back to blogging.
Here is a brief list of the happenings in the last three years. I got married (awesome); I got my MA and started a PhD in Budapest, Hungary (also awesome, but with long stretches of northern Nevada-esque mind-numbingness); my wife is expecting a child in January (a tie with the first item for the awesome); and the rest of my days are spent studying, teaching English, and doing my best to learn as little Hungarian as possible. I’m proud to say that I have lived here for over a year and still cannot count to ten. While it must be admitted that Hungarian is as difficult as Mandarin Chinese and half the population speaks varying degrees of English, I cannot help but crow a little bit about my accomplishment.
So there you are.
