Well, I’ve been away from the site for a long time, but now I am back. I don’t really have any notion of where I want to take TheSimulacra now, so I’m hoping that things will evolve naturally and eventually I will discover some sort of new direction, but I have no idea how long that will take.

Plenty has happened in my life this year, so I thought i would outline some key things to provide some sort of background to my writing. I have finished university and now have a math degree, which brought to a close my three years of university and, for now at least, my formal education. I didn’t really want to jump straight into work, so over the summer I have been trying to think about where I want to go in life and trying to find some new sources of inspiration. I’ve been helping a friend out on his smallholding, we have pigs, chickens, goats… which has made a fantastic change from the intellectual life I’ve had for the last few years. I’ve also been spending time with friends before they go off on new adventures in the autumn.

Having had the background goal of obtaining my degree for most of my life up to this point, I am now in a transition phase. I have no idea where I want to go next, and I’m not really comfortable where I am, so I’m hoping that by writing some more here I’ll be able to get some thoughts and ideas into shape and hopefully carve out a new direction.

Thanks for sticking with me over my long hibernation, I don’t know how often I’ll be posting now, but I’m planning on establishing some sort of regular rhythm.