Regular readers may have noticed that I have been off my usual very-nearly-daily blog schedule the last few days. The reason for this is that I had one last exam to mop up; I finished that today. I am flying back to the United States tomorrow, and so am packing and preparing for that today. Regular blogging should resume on Thursday. I should note that, starting right this very moment, I also plan to make a stylistic change–I will be writing these posts in American English rather than British English. American English is the style I grew up with; I was writing in British English not to be pretentious as some of you might have thought, but because I was writing essays and exams in British English for the University of Warwick. As of today, I no longer have any more exams or essays to write for Warwick–next year I become a grad student at the University of Chicago. In consequence, I will be writing all of my papers in American English henceforth, and that includes these blog posts. I thank you, the reader, for your continued readership, and promise to endeavor to make it well worth your while when I return on the 30th.

Over the next month or so, the rate of blogging is going to be somewhat reduced. I will not quite be able to keep up my normal very-nearly-daily schedule. My regular readers deserve an explanation for this, and this is that explanation. Unfortunately, I have 5 3,000-word essays and what remains of a 10,000 word dissertation to complete by the first of May for the final year of my undergraduate degree at the University of Warwick in England. I am capable of writing these posts and doing those essays simultaneously, but not with the level of mental energy I would like to be able to devote to each. Rather than write bad blog posts or bad essays, I have decided to somewhat curtail blog output between now and May 1. I do not plan to stop blogging entirely, but I expect the posting schedule to be considerably more random during this time. I am not certain how big the reduction will be or if it will last all the way until May 1–this depends on how quickly and easily I move through these essays. When I have finished these essays, I expect to resume the standard very-nearly-daily schedule. I thank my readers both for their continued readership and for their patience during this time. I promise those of you that stick with me a strong summer of frequent blogging.

Update:

As of April 28, I have completed my essays for Warwick and will resume the usual very-nearly-daily blogging schedule. Thanks for staying with me.