The calm before  

I seem to have stumbled into a bit of an emergent hiatus here -- I've had every good intention about writing and even some interesting things I've wanted to say, but life has been so busy, especially because the baby is coming any minute, but also for other reasons (which has me wondering where those other reasons are going to fit in my schedule once the baby is actually here). At any rate, this is more of a touching base post than anything else; with any luck I'll be writing here again shortly, but if not, you'll understand why, I expect!