The new semester starts Monday, and I'm back in my non-air-conditioned apartment, building Ikea furniture, getting permission to audit an intensive Turkish class, and discovering that none of my classes will admit to having textbooks.

Although I've been getting exercise over the summer, I haven't much been on SP. (This might possibly perhaps be because during the school year I'm here alone, and during the summer I'm at home with my husband.) I'll be around a lot more starting next week, though.