Full plate

Which do you people find more shocking and appalling?

a) That David Blaine went 7 minutes without oxygen?

b) That the Cubs have gone 8 games without a stinkin' win?

c) That I've gone 9 days without updating my blog?

Most of you said c) 9 days. And you're right, all of you. I still can't believe it myself here. 9 days of me not suffering from withdrawal. Not feeling creative. Not feeling the urge to sit in front of my computer with a silly grin on my face as I'd type up something I thought was funny.

This is what happens to grad students when final exams come around. You become a one-dimensional, boring, workaholic version of yourself. It's sad, but in all of the craziness from the past two weeks, I haven't once thought about blogging. Too busy, and too tired.

Trust me, when life tables and reliability theory and demographic models and Gompertz's law of mortality are dancing around in your head, they leave not much room for anything else.