I write to you from the pale crags and papery drifts of Mt. Grademore because it has been too long - far, far too long - an absence. Let me see whether I can't cobble together some brief accounts of what I have been up to in the past month in stolen moments between grading papers on the York Crucifixion play and exams on the commodification of leisure in the Renaissance.

Meanwhile: what do you think of the new blog aesthetic? I've been toying with the idea of moving to Wordpress or Tumblr for some time, lured in by their cleaner themes, but I like the level of control I have over minutia in Blogger, so I finally settled on this. The only glitch I haven't been able to fix yet concerns the indentation of bullet lists in my posts. I'm afraid that will have to wait for another day, when Mt. Grademore no longer looms.

(Also, in order to comment on posts in my new theme, you now have to click on the post title and go to the post's individual page. Sorry about that. I will look into fixing it so that you can comment on Sycorax Pine's main page as well.)