I've been pretty MIA on this blog recently. It's not for any good reason. Nope. In fact it's a string of boring and rather mundane reasons.

I had to make a new passport application. We had a book club meeting (<em>Buddha in the Attic</em>). I went to Prague for a long weekend and then I needed a week to recover from my long weekend.

I've been re-reading both <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> and <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em> for school and the combination of reading and teaching these two books at the same time makes me both happy and hopeful as well as a depressed and certain that life is meaningless.

So I decided that I should also start reading the novel <em>Beautiful Ruins</em>. I don't think that I love it but I am only 47% of the way in and I've been reading it before I fall asleep at night which means I have to do plenty of re-reading as I can never remember what I read the night before.

I've been out to dinner (and drinks) with friends more than normal. This past weekend I had Indian food at Saffron in Studentskigrad, I went to Blender club for drinks, I played a few games of pool (and I was horrible at it--like usual) and I've eaten pizza out twice in the last week.

I've planned sprig break, a long holiday in May and most of my summer travel. There's still a short weekend in May that I need to figure out but I figure that there's time for that. Maybe I'll go to Athens. Maybe not. I really want to go to Kiev but there aren't any good flights.

So this is just to say, don't worry about me. I am doing okay. My laundry is clean, my dishes are washed, I've got food in my fridge and I'm getting plenty of sleep. It just turns out that I done all of this at the expense of my blog recently. I guess t<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">hese things happen. </span>

I hope that everyone else is having a great week!!