Back to the Land of the Living

The silence that has marked this blog for the past month should now be coming to an end. I had to go through the hell of studying (and then taking) my comprehensive exams, which I thankfully passed yesterday. So hopefully I will be back to posting dreams again now that I have time to think about something other than clove plantations in Zanzibar.

It's sort of odd to reemerge from the cocoon of academia to see what people in the blogosphere are talking about. Oh my God! There's a picture of a drunken Obama speech-writer fondling a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton? I cannot believe that Obama has not immediately fired this person! This is so, so incredibly important! We cannot allow the molestation of pieces of cardboard to go unpunished!

Seriously, get a life. And if you can't get a life, read up on those clove plantations in Zanzibar. You'll kill two birds with one stone by learning something of marginal significance to human society while also not caricaturing yourself and all the values you pretend to stand for.

Okay, rant over. Back to dreams.

Oh, one other thing: I'm leaving for my year in Africa in four weeks. I hope to continue this blog from Africa, but we will see how things go.