Goodbye 'til Thursday; unless I manage to get onto a borrowed computer, I'm away from blogging and e-mail while on tour at the University of Illinois. For details on those dates and my appearances next week at and around Southern Methodist University, visit the Appearances section of thrillofthechaste.com.

If you live near Champaign, Ill., or Dallas, I hope you can make it to one of my talks. I'm told there will be plenty of copies of The Thrill of the Chaste available at each appearance, or you can bring your own copy if you have one already and I'll be happy to sign it.