In other news, my social life is suddenly great. Not only did i have great weekend plans, tommorow i have plans to meet a friend outside the dept. for lunch, then everyone is coming over at night for the usual tuesday nice dinner (which we're hosting: cornbread, spinach pie, and crepes for dessert), and then wednsday night i'm doing something yet to be determined with Lisa, and thursday I leave for England to spend all weekend with Dave and Bessie. Life is good.