The new year...

It is such a gray day... it's almost noon and I can hardly believe it's not twilight. The Black Sea sure does generate heavy, low clouds here. I'll have to get some energy soon because we are going to take a huge trek across Istanbul to visit friends who live in Ateşehir for a New Year's Day celebration.

I'm trying to take one day off from doing planning for the Spring semester. After working so much in the last month of the semester and in the week following exams, it's very hard just to sit still and not get anxious about what I haven't done.

There's a goal for the new year--get my life-work ratio in balance. Oh that, write more in my blog, and get more exercise--not particularly novel ideas, but still worthwhile.

So, here's to a less hectic, more fun New Year!