nce.  </p>

<p>And now D. and I are back to our exciting leapfrogging conference schedules interspersed with frantic grading (someday, I swear, I will post about teaching again!), and students are begging me for last-minute mercy (my quality is plenty strained right now), and Shavuot is coming up, if by "coming up" you mean "needing to be planned last week except that last week was Pesach."  And then -- oh, cripes, we still need to buy a new house, don't we?  So, yeah, we're horrifically busy, which is pret