Probably, if you're one of the four or five dear, kindly people who visit this site, you've noticed the frequency of reviews has been a bit like a receding hairline.

I like to blame terrorists and penguins, because it's easy and fun. I look up from my work and realize oh, pus and hellation, my last review was five days ago. Bad blogger. No taco.

But, I may also take a bit of time off, for three primary reasons:

1) Work. My schedule has been fairly frantic and cramped, and my radius of lunchtime eateries has been swept like a radar screen. When I am hunkered down over a stubborn bunch of code, I am unable to escape for a leisurely lunch to visit somewhere new.

2) School. This is another semester of twenty or so books to read for classes, and it eats most ravenously into my food-writing and research time. I am more likely to be on JSTOR at the moment than on Yelp.

3) Health. I, shaking my head sadly over test results, am doing some battening of the hatches. Some numbers are too high, others too low, and while I slaver at the thought of writing about pancakes colored with a latticework of pale cream and grilled brown, or glistening, chewy-at-the-corners heaps of carnitas bursting with their own porkiness, I need to take a break.

Ah, but Dave, isn't this simply an opportunity to review healthy and vetegarian places? Sure, and I will. I haven't yet been to Paru's Indian on Sunset, or the Elf Cafe in Echo Park, Cinnamon in Highland Park, or even Cru, which is close enough to visit on foot. But there aren't that many. Besides, I am unlikely to bother reviewing a fair chopped salad at a restaurant renowned for its juicy, near-blasphemous steaks. It's unfair to the restaurant, and you.

It's not forever. I do have some reviews lined up and will post them, and will always continue to gather new worlds to conquer. This is my second-to-last semester before graduation. My culinary choices will be spread with moderation. Cobwebs will not accumulate.

Thanks as always if you've been here.

Dave