The following gchat message is representative of many angry messages we’ve been receiving lately:
Mouse: your blog is ruining my lifei knowww you’re busy with like school and finals and those ridiculous things, but i like check it every 10 mins thinking that it’s magically going to have new thigs to entertain me with and all i see is whatever animal that is, AND Dooce and Caroline have been slacking too… am i being forced to actually do work by the blogosphere?
The answer, dear Mouser, is probably YES. But I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize, and tell all of you, dear readers, that it might be like this for the next week or so. You see, in grad school they want us to do things like “write papers” and “take finals.” These silly things take up a lot of time, and I am sorry for my bloggy absence. I’ll do the best I can.
[Posted by Mallory]
six words to change the world. 
mouse is so right!! i’ve been having the same issues…checking you and dooce every half hour. at least she has the pregnancy excuse…sheesh.