Getting Refocused

Full-time blogging will re-commence sometime this week, I promise. Right now, I'm in the midst of a whirlwind of activity, simultaneously good and sad and bad and rad. I'm just trying to stay afloat with it all, and while I figure out how to do all that, I'll hopefully get some aspects of my life much more organized than they've become in the last few weeks. The physical side of that starts, of course, by figuring out where all the random papers and trivial crap that's piled up in my room goes. Who knows where that will take me?

As I usually like to do with my first-entries-after-a-week-of-posting, I'll point you to a link. It's to a Roanoke Times article that printed this past Friday, an interview one of my English professors, who is openly gay. It's at first surprising to see anything regarding homosexuality in the Roanoke paper, but they did let him speak without trying to bias his words. His isn't a unique situation, but since I also grew up in a West Virginia small town and remember the ridicule that anything associated with the word "gay" was dealt, I can imagine the difficulties he faced. No matter your opinion on the topic, he is certainly a great teacher and an excellent writer.

Also, I'm taking bets on how long it will be before we start seeing bumper stickers with "Brokeback" as the adjective before a variety of location-specific and job-descriptive nouns.