The semester winds down rainy and typhoon-like, which is to say whirling toward disorder and confusion. Got a good bit done this semester (promotion, citizenship app, etc.) but lots of delays in ‘scholarly productivity.’ My brain burns, have headaches and feel out of sorts on a semi-regular basis (I visit the little drugstore lady to buy migraine medicine about once every other month, for example, so when she sees me coming she knows it’s not for condoms). and now comes July, the season of oral defenses (4), meetings, and hopefully creativity (want to do more painting…and finish essays )