Oh God, I've been writing thank you notes all day. My hand hurts. They all feel so copy/pasted, since I can't write everyone something nice and personalized...whatever, I'm almost done.

First, to all of you who were listening to me in IRC the other night (lil, am_Unition, galen, and others) I got the housing contract figured out with my university! (Due to a typographical error, all of the emails were being sent to the wrong address, and I missed the deadline by 2 days.) I had to go in in person to hash out the details, but all of the faculty were very kind and understanding, and it only took maybe an hour. All in all, it ended very well, just like you all told me it would!

I leave for a week long canoe trip on Friday (I'm certain I've talked about it on pubski before), so I'm consolidating all of my camping gear and getting organized. It's going to be a hell of a trip--just my family, and two good friends. Three of us are eagle scouts, and everyone has been camping for their entire lives, so it seems like a perfect combination. I'll tell you all more about it afterwards, I'll try to take pictures and draw a hub-wheel somewhere!