I'm sorry I haven't had anything interesting to say in a while. I know you're disappointed, especially after my recent rush on Terribly Clever entries. It's just that I've been insanely busy lately. In fact, I remember the days where I had two - no, one! - whole day with no work to do. No thesis leftovers to tidy (helloooo CD of clips - you'd better appreciate this Markers), no teaching admin., no MLX crap to do, no giant holes to fill in in the back yard (more on this later), no week's-worth-of-laundry to catch up on, no grocery shopping to do, no writing-up grants to apply for, no journal articles to edit and send back to the editors, no conference papers to write, no... you get the point.
I'd just like two whole days in a row with nothing for me to do. I'd go to lunch at a pub with a friend I've had to put off exactly three (or is it four?) weeks in a row. I'd go to breakfast at a cafe with The Squeeze. I'd do something like this: