When Life Gets In The Way Of Blogging...

When I started this blog in mid-2005, I found myself in the fortunate situation of facing a temporary lull in my normally hectic work schedule.   This allowed me to do the necessary legwork to get the site up and running, to put together detailed and sometimes lengthy pieces, and to post regularly and frequently.   As the summer turned into fall, my work obligations started to heat up and my personal time began to dwindle.   Still, I managed to keep posting.

And then came the new year.   Now, I've been working as an attorney since 1993, and none of those thirteen years could fairly be characterized as a walk in the park.   But I have never experienced anything like the intensity of the storm that hit in January and that continued, unabated, until this past week.   Three of my cases all exploded at once, drowning me in an ocean of work and all but eliminating my free time.   Indeed, the circumstances were so dire, that I found myself on pace to log more hours at work this year than at any other time in my professional career, and by a longshot at that.

The culmination of this insanity was set to be happening right now, with a major hearing in one case scheduled for Thursday of last week and a full-blown trial in another case slated for the entirety of this week.   But last Tuesday, without warning, we suddenly received word that Thursday's hearing was being vacated by the court and reset for early July.   And before we had even fully processed this unexpected development, we received word from our other client that the case set for trial had settled -- after four long years of hard-fought litigation, and a three-week trial that was held last year.   And so it was that the overbearing demands of two roaring cases that had been crashing down upon me one day had completely vanished a mere 24 hours later, leaving me with an opportunity, at long last, to take a breath.

That said, I'm not yet out of the woods.   I still have two cases that remain relatively active, so it will remain difficult for me to post lengthy pieces that take days upon days to compose.   But rather than prolonging my self-imposed exile from the blog any further, I'm going to start putting up shorter posts that will at least enable me to convey some of the outstanding food and restaurant experiences that I've had over the past several months.   And once things settle down at work, I will return to longer pieces -- including some restaurant reviews that are now long overdue.