Starting up again

Hello after a while! What better time than a black, sleety night than to begin my blog once more? I failed recently on a project to launch a personal Web site, and while I'm giving up for the time being, I'm going to continue trying to make it happen. In the mean time, this blog will again become my outlet for sharing things that I deem unsuitable for Facebook.

This year, I am teaching in Wels in Upper Austria. Wels, being a fairly large city by Austrian standards, affords me options I didn't have in Tamsweg, but it also lacks the possibility for kindling close friendships, a possibility that is a welcome obligation in a tiny hamlet like Tamsweg.

I dearly miss my colleagues and friends in Tamsweg, but the year as it was could never be again. I will treasure my memories and the lessons I learned there, and rely on them as I enjoy this final year in Austria.

I leave you with the naked man, one of many at the "Nackte Maenner" exhibition in Vienna.