During the past couple of days, it’s been pretty hilarious in that commiserative, “I feel your panic/pain” sort of way, to check up on the away messages of my friends in this and the other blogging class and repeatedly see some variation on the theme of “-- out of 36.” Or in the really unfortunate cases, “- out of 36.”

That said, there’s a visibly productive side to this frantic game of catch up many of us are playing.