My Mad Life

Hello dear readers:

I haven’t abandoned you, I assure you, but things have gotten a little hectic around the house. After a month or so of having no work, I’ve had to scrounge up every opportunity possible to keep the bills paid, especially as my student loans start to come due. Teaching and tutoring so much has been rather rough, but the real drain on my intellectual capabilities has been writing test copy for my parent company. Basically, I’ve been writing passages for mock SAT and ACT exams and I haven’t had time to write a word of anything I’d actually like to have down on paper.

Well, I guess I did sneak a question or two about Christopher Hitchens into my passages, but that’s besides the point.

I still owe you a Japan entry, something that I think about nearly everyday. Sometime soon, I will get those words down on the page and get my butt back in the pews at local churches. As soon as I do, you will hear about it.

One final thing: Christopher Hitchens has written an autobiography, Hitch 22, and I believe everyone should go out and read it. For those of you who say we atheists don’t believe in anything, check the previous sentence. It’s not a tirade against religion, but rather a discussion about the formation of one of the most brilliant minds of our times. My father, a man who regularly disagrees with Hitchens, has come around to see who the man is and where he has come from because of this book, and I believe you might as well. The second half of the book, when Hitchens gets more into our modern condition, is slightly more relevant to this blog than his younger days, but the whole thing is well-written and worth the effort.

I hope to see you all back here soon.