I think everyone will agree with me that 'real life' months don't all go by at the same pace. Some of us just got rid of finals, whereas a few of you will only begin finals in a month or two. Summer goes slowly, and that's really the time we can afford to go through plots and threads quickly, because people are there to post. But right now, things are C.R.A.Z.Y.
And about the layout... like Lydia, I've also been punched in the face by AWESOME. I can live without the sidebar, but it did make things look official in a way...
I'm cramming everything in one post because I want to go to bed.
Oh... and I might convince someone awesome to join the board. If it works, we'll have another guy!
But I kind of told him it'd be a better idea if he actually read all 6 books before joining, since we're all pretty much hardcore fans.