Looks like Jenn is lining up to beat me back to blogging. I just spent several hours, today and last night, adminning the blog for my class, so I figured it would be sort of whack to continue ignoring the Almanac any longer. It's not that the holidays were unproductive, I actually did a lot of stuff, in a sense too much to stop and blog. I'm still not writing new text with much regularity, and it's hard to get practicing instruments regularly, but, the late December recap:

created seven or so "broadsides" (I'll try to figure out how to post them in a bit) as gifts for family and friends. They aren't anything like real letter-pressing, just files on a word processor spat out by a laser printer (a really bitchin laser printer I can use on the company's dime), but they are an attempt to rethink and expand some texts, so I feel like they were useful creatively, and the recipients seemed to dig them.

Played one good gig- New Years at the Rickshaw Stop in SF. Lots of fun, good folks came out. We opened for Dengue Fever, who are a sort of lounge/pop group fronted by a Cambodian pop star on vocals. Pretty great band- they do Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now'- in Cambodian!

Started teaching again yesterday- going to take all the kids through a sustaiened creative project throughout the quarter as part of their final. Looking forward to figuring out how to convince them to do that, and how to get them through the steps it takes to create a larger creative/critical work. I think by then end they're going to wish they got the more boring teacher.