When my run of posting starts to become rather thin, I think I owe readers an explanation as to what is going on and when they can expect things to return to normal. In this case, I am presently working on a draft of the MA thesis I am writing at University of Chicago, provisionally titled The Return of Depression Politics and the Coming Cataclysm for Democracy. This draft needs to be completed by Friday, April 18,  and so I have had to give it precedence over my other projects. Sometime during this week the draft will be finished, at which point the blogging pace should begin to pick up. However, a full return to the very-nearly-daily pace I maintained for much of 2013 is not in the cards, at least not until I finish my MA, which I expect will happen de jure in June, de facto in late May. I thank you, the reader, for your patience as I complete these urgent projects.

As is my custom, I like to keep readers abreast of any reason that arises that slows my usual writing pace. At the moment, the issue is a group of three papers I have to get written before the end of the quarter at the University of Chicago. Combined, it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 words of writing. At present, one of the three is done, the others are partway complete. I expect to do some blogging beginning on Monday, with the regular rate of postage resuming sometime in the next week or two. Once I finish these papers, I will be on break through the beginning of January, and will likely post more than usual. I hope the reader will be kind enough to be patient with me while I get this work out of the way.

I have decided to once a year permit myself to self-indulge in writing about the state of the blog near the date that marks the anniversary of my first post. I began this project on August 4, 2012, so that time has arrived. I promise I will only do this once a year. This is not the beginning of a long, slow slide into irrelevance and self-reflection.

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