A rather big year

This has been a big year for me. I had two books published, travelled to Lisbon, to Italy, Germany, the UK and the US, gave a slew of talks and talked to a slew of folk. And today I was recorded for a nation-wide show, Ockham’s Razor (probably to be broadcast next year) on species.

Oh, and the contract came for a job. As of soon, I will be an Associate Professor at Bond University on the Gold Coast of Queensland (think Miami Beach without the cyclones). This is 2/3rds teaching and 1/3rd research, so I can keep my hand in and write my various next books. But it means that I have to:

1. Arrange to move

2. Find a place to live (in Brisbane; the GC is only an hour’s drive due south)

3. Write two courses straight away

4. Buy a car (for the hour’s drive).

5. Revise and resubmit three papers.

6. Write three book reviews.

All before Christmas. The nervous breakdown is scheduled for December 26 to 2 January.

Now I’m not complaining, and fame and fortune have arrived at last in a modest but satisfying manner, but I may be a little light on the blogging for a while. On the other hand, every time I’ve said that in the past, the Bloggods have sent me material that I have just had to write about. Hang about and see…