As mentioned in passing in the previous post, we've been having some DSL issues that prevent me from posting anything from home at the moment. Hopefully, Verizon will get this fixed (Kate spent a long time on the phone with them Sunday morning, and they think it's a software problem on their end).
More importantly, I've got a wretched cold, and an 8am class. I can more or less handle lecturing at that hour, but that combined with the cold leaves me glassy-eyed and drooling for most of the rest of the morning, which isn't exactly conducive to interesting blogging.
As a result, traffic here will be greatly reduced for a while. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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