March for me will come in like the proverbial lion as I wrap up my little European tour with a weekend of workshops in Munich and go out, err, still like the lion with a trip to Chicago for research and an evening of country dancing (loosely defined).  In between, I'll be in Boston for DJing (and more research).  Updated: the DJing and Boston trip are canceled, conveniently replaced by a class at a local university!  Whee!

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February starts gently for me with an online lecture that is a sort of sequel to one I did in Moscow eight (!!) years ago and one of my regular trips to Boston to DJ before I head off to Europe at the end of the month for a teaching trip to Belgium and Germany that will also take me briefly through Dublin and Amsterdam for research, art, and reunions.

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Happy new year!  I wasn't planning to travel for anything but library research this month while I wait out the post-holiday Covid surge and polish a bunch of old and new reconstructions for my European trip in February-March.  But it seems I'm going to Boston to DJ again.  Tomorrow!  Whee!

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Winding down for the year after a busy late autumn with a final trip up to Boston.  Then home for a few weeks to attempt to catch up on writing projects!

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Things are getting lively again!  Online and in-person workshops, two balls, and a DJ gig, plus at least two library visits, and I'm hoping for four…

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Writing time!  I have a huge backlog of papers and articles to get written, so I'll be spending most of October home doing that, with one trip at the end of the month to the UK for an academic conference.

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Finally, a month that begins to look like normal for me, with workshops and DJing and lots of research time.  On the road again!

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Onward goes the hot and quiet summer!  I am still consolidating and collating and cataloguing my research collection, with interesting results, especially in the "collating" area, with my only event this month a reunion with my pandemic group of online cotillion students!

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Well, now I have two months of a fairly long, hot summer ahead of me without much going on before things kick back into gear again in the autumn.  I've been making a project for the last month or so of organizing and cataloguing my rather enormous collection (and, um, backlog) of research photos from various libraries, so I expect I'll continue with that, and I have plenty of writing to do!  But first, one more online lecture!

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Another month full of exciting travel, this time to Germany, and then on to precepting a Civil War ball in Pennsylvania.  In-person teaching and dancing, hurrah!

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