This semester is officially finished for me! This has been my craziest semester ever -- I had my book to proofread and index, my partner and step-kids came down with mumps (the kids were on isolation for 9 days, my partner was home three weeks), I took part in a pilot co-teaching program, the kids' dad abandoned them, I had a nasty cold/flu, I ramped up my activities at lifehack.org [1], I'm doing research for an academic article due early next year, my brother was hopitalized twice, my partner's brother moved in with us while he divorces, we had a plumbing leak that required a whole section of the upstairs floor and downstairs ceiling to be torn out and a giant tent to be erected in our living room during construction (the floor and toilet upstairs still aren't back in), and I launched a new blog at StepDadding.com [2] to talk about the step-dad life.

Most of that stuff won't go away now that the break is here, but at least I'll have time to get everything in order, maybe even get a little ahead of the curve!

Huzzah!