So I'm a couple of weeks late, but it's worth noting that NY Times science blogger John Tierney is quitting his blog:

After three years of experiments, TierneyLab is shutting down. I’ll still be testing ideas in my Findings columns and in other articles for The Times, and you can keep up with them by following me on Twitter. You can also keep trying the weekly math puzzle at its new home starting next Monday at The Times Wordplay blog.

This is going to be a short post where I confess my recent troubles with keeping everything going on at full speed in my life, while the workload constantly grows.

I believe it is a temporary problem -I have experienced the same situation in the past- but I feel swamped by a few things that have piled up. So today, rather than reading on a new physics result or a new article on the arxiv, you are going to find here a list of the things I am not attending in order to write this short post. In random order:

1. I have a undergraduate thesis to correct.
2. I also need to write a reference letter for him, by next Sunday.
3. There is a 100 pages paper in internal review by CDF and I am a member of the review committee.