Hi, I'm still alive. I had a great post about the marathon, but I lost it. I'm recovered and running again, but just 3-4 miles at a time and not every day. The next race I do will be a 10k. :)

Work is picking up again, and soon we will be in full admissions swing, and I will not emerge for months. I'm currently helping students with fellowship applications, which is pretty rewarding, although it will be more rewarding if they actually win.

I'm thinking about doing NaNoWriMo. If I do, I do not think I'll be posting my book as I go. I don't know exactly what I'm going to write about, but I've been thinking about family a lot. My great uncle (whom I'd never met) died recently, and it struck me that he was the last of that generation of my family in England. He was the last person who could have told me about my grandma as a little girl or about how my grandma and granddad met during World War II and had to get married in a hurry while my granddad was supposed to be guarding an arch in in Paris. I really miss my grandma, and I wish that I had recorded oral histories from her while she was alive. I certainly thought about it, but I always put it off, and I wasn't in Ohio all that much. I always thought I'd have more time. Anyway, my novel, if I write it, is probably going to be intensely personal, although very probably not about my grandma, since the crying might get in the way of the writing.