apropos of nothing:

• a) i’m busy
• b) really busy
• c) we (sort of) have a moving date :-) which adds more busyness to the business.
• d) why do americans insist on putting the punctuation inside the quotes? if i thought that the world revolved around me i’d suspect it was done deliberately to annoy me.
• e) the concise oxford disctionary is really very good.