Or as Marion Daly says in her email auto-response: “Thanks for your email. I’m out of the office right now attending a very important costume competition at UW. However, don’t fear (unless you’re watching a horror movie or have just chopped of a digit while carving a pumpkin) I’ll be back online this afternoon.”
Googler-as-Cookie-Monster has an illustrious history in CSE; see Yin Lu here.