A Return

It has been two weeks since it began, but I’m still pleased with the arrival of relatively chilly weather here in LA, because the heat, dust, grime, and smoke of the Summer and into the Fall (from fires, endless hot days, etc.,) was seemingly relentless, and really getting me down. The panorama above (click for larger view), taken from the top of Mount Hollywood, shows the return of snow to the mountains and nearby hills as a result of some of that chill (this meant some heavy rain in the actual city, which was nice.)

Speaking of returns, I’m back! You’ll have noticed that I’ve been bit quiet here on the blog, for which I apologise. I hope that you’ve been following my (quite regular) microblogging on twitter, instagram and Facebook, however – It is not the same as some of the longer in-depth posts I do here, but it might still help you keep in touch, so do follow on those platforms if you wish. Links in the sidebar.

This semester has been a very busy one, in which I’ve felt rather pulled apart. New routines due to various things too tedious to mention have meant that the places in my schedule where I might usually find time to do a longer thoughtful blog post were harder to come by, and by later in the evening when I’d time to take a breather, it would be the wrong part of the day to pull together coherent and interesting thoughts. But I am working back to a new approach and/or routine where there is some time for that. This includes the fact that it has occurred to me that since I use dictation more in place of lots of my typing (particularly on smaller devices like phones, iPads and watches), I might start banking snippets of thoughts when I can, using dictation, and then edit and concatenate later. We shall see if that helps me create more, er, “content”. Either way, do look out for posts in the coming days and weeks.

I’ve actually a LOT of things to tell, since I’ve been doing a lot – fascinating meetings and conferences, and research projects of various sorts. So it isn’t for lack of material that I’ve not said much since August, but quite the opposite. More to come!

-cvj