Restarting - Again

So this is the second or third time I have had to explain a long dearth of posts, though I think this hiatus has been the longest. There is a good reason, as well as reason to believe that I will be posting more regularly in the future. To the explanation:

At the end of last year, after all the annual conferences, several things occured. I was rather ill for quite some time, and barely made it to my work obligations, and I finished my dissertation at the LMU. The latter, of course, did not mean that I was finished here, oh no - for the German University has little to do with the real world, and has wonderful rules like "submission only in April or October, and presence of printed work for an entire semester before Rigorosum", which means that I still have to wait until July for the final bit (what would normally be a defense in the Anglo-American world is here one major and two minor examinations; in my case Systematic Theology as the major and New Testament as well as Church History as the minors). I've also begun a temporary position lecturing here at the LMU (at the Catholic Faculty) and hope to get a research grant near the end of the year. Interestingly, I should manage to wrap up my philosophy DA at HMU around the same time as the D.theol. at the LMU, which should make this summer most interesting.

In short, I failed to blog and email and do social networking, but it looks like that period should end. If you were in email correspondence with me and haven't heard from me prior to reading this, it's coming (this week is vacation).