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If i cam someone you once saw with any degree of frequency, you may be wondering where I have been. The short answer is that I have been at home reading - constantly.  I rather foolishly signed up for three classes this summer, which, due to the accelerated schedule, are held each day, all morning.  Since the instructors assume you aren’t crazy enough to have signed up for three classes, they have no qualms about assigning enormous quantities of reading.  There are two and a half weeks left in the semester, and, in addition to the three major papers I have to write before then, I still have to read Evelina, Persuasion and A Land Remembered.  That’s probably about a thousand pages of text, which doesn’t include the selected essays by Samuel Johnson I am reading on a daily basis (and which, by the way, are the best thing ever, and you should immediately go out and buy), plus assorted poetry and the entire second half of Florida: A Short History.  It’s overwhelming.  I am comforted by the knowledge that this, too, shall pass, and I will one day soon be able to do the things I once did, like go to dinner with friends, read the newspaper and watch television.