A resurrection

After a doomsday post, more than two years' break, and a whole lot of mood swings vacillating between despair, what's-the-point?-it's-too-late-to-fix-it-anyway attitude and optimistic, but-we-need-to-at-least-try-otherwise-there-is-no-reason-to-wake-up-in-the-morning-and-we-might-as-well-get-ready-to-die thoughts, the blog is finally to be revived. Hopefully, this time the commitment lasts a (somewhat longer) while. What's to come: format - and naturally, content - updates. Meanwhile, here are some significant updates about the author: Firstly, I haven't been a US resident for the past 22 months. Yet, I still filed my taxes. On time. I moved to the island where the sun doesn't shine (I was originally skeptical with regards to this fact, but have recently lost all hope), the United Kingdom of Great Britain. I am currently in the final stretch of my studies towards an MSc in Urban Economic Development at the University College London, University of London's Bartlett School of Architecture & Planning's Development Planning Unit (Or MSc in UED @ DPU, UCL, UoL for short). Besides becoming proficient in acronym memorization, I am happy to share that I thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from my course, didn't lose all of my accent or give up on my "z's", and continue to see no point in writing the extra "u" in colour, behaviour or neighbourhood. Secondly, in the following months, I intend to disseminate abstracts of papers I have worked on during my studies and as usual continue to sketch thoughts on current issues. Stay tuned!