This is the first of what I will try to make a week\u00adly series, updates on how I am sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading my New Year\u2019s Res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions this year. How\u00adev\u00ader, this is going to be short: I just spent the last half-hour writ\u00ading this post only to have Word\u00adPress sig\u00adnal some kind of \u201cerror\u201d when try\u00ading to save it and there\u00adby los\u00ading every\u00adthing I wrote.<\/p>\n
Essen\u00adtial\u00adly, I have been too busy with work (I worked 26 days out of the 31 days of Decem\u00adber, includ\u00ading New Year\u2019s Eve, and Jan\u00adu\u00adary has been just as busy so far) to have any time oth\u00ader than what I call the \u201csta\u00adtion keep\u00ading\u201d tasks of pay\u00ading the bills, buy\u00ading gro\u00adceries and gas, prep\u00adping my car\u00adry-along meals for my pri\u00adma\u00adry job, etc.<\/p>\n
About the only I have done is start research\u00ading the folk\u00adlore regard\u00ading the vam\u00adpire\u2019s mes\u00admer\u00adic gaze, pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly by start\u00ading the out\u00adline for my research, and even that\u2019s only in the pre\u00adlim\u00adi\u00adnary stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"