A Brief Silence

It’s that time of the year semester again, in which I find myself running about putting out fires that have either 1) burst forth just recently or 2) been smoldering all semester while I ignored them. The biggest fire is the aforementioned term paper, which sort of.. smoldered and burst forth. I knew it was there, I paid attention to it, lovingly prodding the firewood, but it still didn’t behave properly, and now it’s burning me. In other words, I need to get the paper written soon, preferably within the next couple of days. That way I’ve still enough time to study for final exams, which are next week. Where the frak did this semester go?

I’ve started on the paper, and am 1/8th done with it (and yes, I can be that specific - it has to be a minimum of 8 pages ). Once it’s done and out of the way, I’ll have a bit of breathing space. Until then, I’m going to feel like a Cylon baseship is looming over me. Not a very comfortable feeling, especially when all of those Cylon raiders start zipping out like bees.

So, what am I getting at? All of the above is a roundabout way of getting to this: for the next week or two, expect nothing from me. I might find time and energy to post, but I wouldn’t count on it. I believe that, due to horrid luck, all of my final exams are crammed into next Monday and Tuesday, back to back. I’ll have to doublecheck, but I’m pretty sure that’s the lay of the land. If it is, my brain should be fully rebooted by next Wednesday or Thursday, at which point I’ll get back to the System. Until then, the blog has not been moved to a back burner, but has been taken off of the stove completely and put in the fridge. (I will, however, be keeping an eye out for comments to moderate / respond to. I suppose that’d be on par with opening the fridge once a day and making sure the dish wasn’t developing some weird out-of-control fungus covering. Not to say you people are fungal, of course - you get what I’m saying…)