This isn’t really a post. Consider it as reassurance I’m still out here, and that I shall try to blog properly again soon. I don’t even have the excuse of being too busy, because I’m not. Lectures have started again (and I have attended all of them), I’ve been selecting a research project for this year (most likely to be ‘Contact processes on a binary square lattice’) and I’ve been attending auditions for productions later this term (they have gone very badly). I shall drag myself back to the keyboard soon, and write again properly. I’m partly reassured and partly concerned to find that I still view all events in my life as potential blog-fodder. “Ooh, I could write about that!”, I say to myself. The spirit of the blogger has not yet left me completely…