Mark D. White

Summer is over, my friends, at least for me. As I write this, it is the second day of fall semester, and I just submitted the manuscript for Superman and Philosophy–missed the end of summer by two days, but that's OK. More news on that book as it works through the production process.

All in all, it was a good summer, finishing both the Superman book and The Manipulation of Choice. There were a few things on my to-do list that I didn't get to, but they weren't urgent (or so I tell myself!). I did get several other things done, including getting two new book projects off the ground, one of which (Law and Social Economics) I should hear news about this week, and the other (still a secret) I hope to hear something next week. Plus, a third, super-secret project, which I started plotting. (Yes, I said plotting. Be very scared.)

I did get two new posts up at Psychology Today since my last update: "Your Dream Lover Come True: Lessons from 'Ruby Sparks'" (August 14) and "Do We 'Grade' Potential Partners Like Teachers Grade Exams?" (August 17). I have ideas for several more, so I hope to return to blogging at PT more regularly (as well as Economics and Ethics and The Comics Professor).

In the meantime, I delve back into work for my department at school–which never stopped but did slow down nicely for the summer, even through August, which was very intense the previous summer–as well as writing a chapter on legal realism for The Good Wife and Philosophy (which involves catching up on episodes not yet seen and reviewing older ones for instances of judges behaving badly). Then I need to finish off a couple projects that I set aside to finish the Superman book before I start on the new things mentioned above. (Good thing I'm taking a sabbatical in the spring!)