*Cough.*

Boy, this blog is dusty.

Uh.

I have no excuse.

Look, everything in my life is dusty at the moment. One has only to peer underneath my bed to see just how disturbing the situation has become. I can blame the weather, I can blame work, I can blame my complete overload on all things performative after finishing up my dissertation -- but like I said, no excuse. Just stasis. I'm stuck at the top of the ferris wheel waiting to come down, nauseous, but also closely inspecting the horizon.

If anyone is still tenaciously reading this thing (and I thank you, I do), some interim information to tide you over until I get off the ride:

My mac.com home for "A State" has lapsed because I'm not paying for the website parking. But - you can still listen to the tracks on this great new site, Vocalo. It's like Youtube for radio. Cool stuff. I'm working on putting it on iTunes or something so that the tracks are actually downloadable. Here's my channel.

Also, peek at BoyGirlBoyGirl's updated website to see what's next for the boys and girls.

And you can see the fruits of my poetry-slam coaching career here. In February, the Chicago Botanic Gardens held a poetry slam with a green theme as part of their Fairchild Challenge. The top six competitors were asked to form an "Eco-Slam Team" and compete in Louder Than A Bomb, the nation's (universe's?) largest teen poetry slam sponsored by Young Chicago Authors. The students were phenomenally devoted to the project, and they pulled second place in both their preliminary bouts, which is pretty incredible given that they had all of six rehearsals to get their individual and group poems in shape for the competition. Wooo!

So that's that. I guess I HAVE been sorta busy, but truth be told, everything's been kind of a major haze since the year began. I really need to invest in a Swiffer or something. Do they make those for the insides of one's head?