carolina, as far as your last comment goes, yes my roomie can read english fairly well. i have definitely not informed anyone here about this blog, or at least how to get to it. i am seriously hoping he never finds it. i am not being mean, but to be honest, sometimes, one needs a little privacy. hence, his never reading this allows me to be honest about him whereas otherwise i would want to be careful of his feelings and would thus bend or distort the true situation.

i mean at this point, privacy is when i shut my office door at school. still, anyone walking by outside can see right in to my office, but there is no walkway near my window so the main people who i see out the window are the workers who upkeep the hundreds of non-native plants, trees, etc that have been imported to make the campus beautiful. they have done so, but it requires so much water just to keep them alive....

so ya, i hope these blog things are not the easiest to find by just randomly searching the internet. if so, uh oh!