If orientation starts this week, then it must be time for my annual navel-gazing “where did the summer go?” post. Evidently, I’ve had the urge to do this every August that I’m not hiatus: here’s 2006 and 2005, but no 2004 (moving across the country) or 2003 (moving across town).

Anyways:

• Miles driven: +/- 5,000
• Great Lakes viewed: 3
• Little Houses visited: 2 (more on that later)
• Conference papers delivered: 2
• Machine-readable and searchable copies of 18th century Prefaces produced: 1, approx. 60 pages of 12 pt, single-spaced type
• Articles written and submitted: 1
• Courses taught: 1
• Health scares: 1
• Farmer’s Market trips: not enough
• Swims: quite a few, and for the first time in years
• Meals eaten with friends: pleasantly a lot
• New friends made: 1, who sort of surprised me because he was an old acquaintance
• Research conducted for 18c portion of diss: quite a bit but not enough
• What would be enough: EVERYTHING. I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING.
• Silly: you can’t know everything. You need to know enough.
• Non-diss books read: 17
• Caves walked through: 1
• Museums visited: dunno. A bunch.
• Digital photos shot: Approximately 2,000ish. There are 648 photos in my Summer 2007 set on Flickr, and I keep 25-30% of what I shoot, so that seems like a reasonable figure.
• Rolls of actual film shot: one. But I bet there will be more.
• New recipes mastered: none. WTF?
• Coffees explored: Harrar, Peruvian, Peaberry. Not so fond of Peaberry, but lots of other people like it.

Here’s what it feels like happened: I did some research, I made some pictures. I swam some and slept a lot. I thought about stuff. I wrote. I saw friends, and I saw the city, and I saw some other places too. And now the days are shorter and the comforter is back on the bed and the Fair runs through the end of the week, and then that’s that. Onward to Fall.