September 2007 Archives
It's been too long since I last posted, and much has happened since then. It seems that the beginning of a new semester totally disrupts my leisure activities like reading and blogging. My last post was August 25. Classes started August 27.
The semester is going very well so far. After teaching two classes in the spring that I hadn't taught before, it's wonderful to once again be teaching classes I've already prepared. The workload is a fraction of a "new prep," as we call it in academics.
Ok, the big news. In short, the start of construction on the new house in Woodbridge is still far off due to yet another delay, so we decided to bail on it. That left us with the decision of what to do for a new home. For reasons I won't explain, we have an urgent need to move into a home this fall (hence our decision to abandon the new house). After considering our options in various areas, we decided to move back up to the north-west part of Northern Virginia.
The past couple weeks has been a whirlwind tour of available single-family homes and townhouses in the Ashburn and south Leesburg areas. Fortunately for us, the buyer's market allowed us to pursue a townhouse in Lansdowne that we wouldn't have been able to touch a year ago. We close on Oct. 15.
