Three Down and One to Go!!!

For all three of you who actually check in on my blog every once in a while, you might have noticed a conspicious lack of posting over the last month or so. This is due to the fact that we now are smack-dab in the middle of what the ancients called "crunch time." I just turned my third paper out of four, all due within a span of three weeks...which, of course, accounts for the clever title of this post. While I'm afraid that I'm all out of useful insight, I would like to float a theory: the current, newfound prevalence of the cell phone has taken away our ability to distinguish between crazy people, and other people using a wireless, bluetooth headset. This reality struck me just yesterday as my wife and I sat in a local Einstein's Bagels, where I watched across the room as some guy sat by himself and apparently had a lively conversation with someone. As I could see only his profile, I had to assume that his "bluetooth" was in his opposite ear. It was only when he got up and started ranting to one of the store employees that I realized that he had no phone! So now, let it be known to all you crazy people out there: you're going to have to get more creative if you want to be noticed; your ranting to invisible people has been rendered inaffectual by the cell phone...