well, once again, it's been several days since i last wrote....at this point, it's not laziness (really!) but lack of content. Life here is pretty much routine....hmmm...what happened today that was interesting....oh, yeah...I got home from class today at about 2:30 to discover that I must not have turned the faucet all the way off when I left for class this morning...it seems as if the shower was dripping just a tiny bit...ordinarily, this wouldn't be such a problem...but, our showerhead is one of those hand-held jobs that I just happened lie down above the faucet this morning...the exact direction that I lay it in apparently put the dripping part of the shower head over the floor....where I was surprised to see about 2 inches of water when I got home this afternoon. Well, I quickly discovered that the mop wouldn't do much good...so I looked around for other things to soak water up with...no dice. "If I only had a wet-vac" I thought... (A wet-vac is a vacuum cleaner for sucking up water) Well, I didn't, but I had something almost as good....a 2 liter coke bottle. By punching a few holes in the bottom of the bottle and sucking through the top, I was able to generate enough of a vacuum to fill the bottle with water, which i then dumped in the sink...I'm glad nobody walked into the room while I was cleaning...I must have looked like a complete fool. but hey, it worked....ten minutes and about 8 bottles of water later (no, I don't need one of you to compute the volume of water in a bottle and tell me how big my bathroom is.) the floor was only damp...and I was only a bit woozy....but hey, it worked. score one for desperation...and the ceiling under me didn't even give way (I hope) Tonight has been kinda calm....I've got a killer test on "Lady with a dog" (A Chekov) tomorrow...apparently the idea is that she'll give us a sheet of paper with a bunch of sentences from the story with about 50 missing words...we've got to fill in the exact words from the story. (Don't try this at home, Wesleyan profs.) Several of my friends who have already taken the test tell me not to worry...there's no way anybody could pass. As some of you know, I've been toying with the idea of registering the internet domain kanga.ru (so my email address could be (for example) hoppy@kanga.ru) It just occurred to me last night that gu.ru isn't taken. (If this is all gibberish to you, mom and dad, just ignore it...it means something to computer geeks) So, I'm conducting an informal vote.... Should I register: kanga.ru (and have machine names like dont.feed.the.kanga.ru) OR gu.ru (and have machine names like dont.feed.the.unix.gu.ru)