Wow.
Computer problems have made a huge dent in my blogging abilities. My username here at RVC got hacked and was sending out thousands of spam messages, so the IT people locked it down - sending everything that comes in into the deleted folder. After a week of thinking "hm, no new email? strange" I finally clicked the deleted folder and saw that I had 19,000 deleted emails. It took the better part of 2 days to wade through the spam crap to find all those "real" emails that were deleted - like the several messages from my PhD advisor, the polo team emails, changes to the weekly reading assignments ... grrrr anyway, I am back.

must get back to lecture now, but I will update on all the amazing goings on this after noon - home in 2 weeks!!!!!!