Twice a week, twice a month, what's the dif? I've been almost completely incommunicado for the last month or so (just ask Elena), but it's not because I've been in a coma or because atomic supermen have captured me and made me their sex slave. No, it's because I'm tired, and it's fall, and have I mentioned that I'm tired?

If you want to know what I've been up to instead of blogging, I now present you my Top 10 List of Things I've Been Doing Instead of Blogging:

1. Working like a dog (natch).

2. Having three colds in three weeks, that cumulated in laryngitis and a lung infection. Nummers.

3. Writing a "tandem tale" with my friend Jana. I start, then write a few paragraphs and send it off to her to write a few paragraphs. We're about 15 pages in. Our story is called The Mole Men of the Tin Mines (and the Women Who Love Them). It's a Hallowe'en tale with witches and possibly ghosts that bears no resemblance at all to its title.

4. Re-re-re-reading Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire books (Hey, it's Hallowe'en!), and discovering that the Alan Ball series is called True Blood and starts production this winter.

5. Listening to a lot of new music, including the Gravenhurst song "See My Friends," which I've been digging on since Beaver jumped off the hotel roof to it in May. I'm also listening to the latest CD from a band whose latest CD isn't due out until 2007.

6. Compiling my Best Of 2006 CD for our end-of-year Music Club meeting, taking place once again at my house. It's a strangely male mix this year (I'm known in the group for listening almost exclusively to female artists), and includes a song from the latest CD from a band whose latest CD isn't due out until 2007.

7. Loving the hell out of Ugly Betty and Heroes.

8. Ignoring every other new drama on the fall schedule, including Studio 60 and Six Degrees, both of which I taped for several weeks before I decided to delete them without watching.

9. Rejoicing that Scrubs is joining The Office on Thursday nights.

10. Watching The Robinsons on BBC Canada based solely on this clip.

And what have you been up to?