Blogging hiatus

This (probably temporary) blogging hiatus is brought to you by:

• the need to make progress on my &*#@$ thesis,
  

[Editor's note: just sent off a manuscript to The Advisor. Hopefully in good enough shape to be submitted to A Journal for publication soon. Yay me!]

• an impending bellydance performance with an unfinished choreography,
• another impending bellydance performance with no choreography and no music (yet),
• books I got for my birthday that I really REALLY want to read right now,
  
• and other odds and ends adding to a lack of enough hours in a day.

I'm around, and will be back to post stuff as the urge strikes. But if it takes a little while, you know why.