Unintended Sabbatical

A combination of really crushing workload, poisoning at the hands of my "friends" during a birthday celebration, and the usual laziness has conspired to keep me from this space over the past week+. At the same time, I've really only been able to casually follow the Sox, even when I'm watching them play most games - it's almost as if I've been on vacation from the Nation for the last 2 weeks. Not saying that to make any particularly large point, just sayin'. Hope to be back blogging soon, but the light at the end of the tunnel is so small as to appear the size of the gap between the top and the bottom of the NL East.