An apology and a plea

I'm back by popular demand! Okay, so the demand really came from the old faithfuls - Lin Kiat, Van Tan and Barney. All in the space of two days! Van Tan left a comment, Lin Kiat sent an email saying that I haven't written a thing in 10 days, and Barney was very upfront about how every visit to my weblog was too much of a letdown, nothing new, nothing changed.

I'd like to extend a sincere apology to all my readers (if there're any left!). My only excuses are fatigue and stress from wedding preparations (which are progressing at an embarrassing rate) and the folks at U of Michigan, who have been very incompetent in sending me my I20, a form that will allow me to obtain a student visa. Then there's the other issue called work, something I do at Cambridge University Press. Although they've brought in my replacement (actually, they brought in two!), I am still responsible for my present projects and responsible for training my replacement, and this seems to require double of my usual time taken for certain tasks. And I do worry about my books, my babies.

Nevertheless, I will leave such cares behind (as far as possible) and carry on with this sad little weblog, which should have considerably more posts once I skip town and begin my new married and graduate student life. Please, dear readers, don't give up on me yet!