these last few months have been flippin awesome, so it is sad that i have not written. i am contemplating getting internet at my house, so that may allow me to write more on here. or search for pointless information and watch old episodes of "mask" (a rockin cartoon from the 80's). by the way, if you have never seen these remakes of the gi joe public service announcements, good lord, check them out now. the consensus so far is that boys find them much funnier than girls, but i recommend them to both.

http://www.fenslerfilm.com/PSAS.htm

on other notes, i scored a job for the summer going on tours of europe. my first trip is about 12 days, and we hit london, paris, florence and rome. the second is about 21 days and covers a bunch of cities in france, switzerland, germany, austria and the czech republic. i am the "program director" in charge of academic stuff (there are 60 students on my first trip and 30 on the second). as i have never been to europe, i am incredibly stoked to have someone else pay my way and pay me on top of it. the work will be hard with long hours, but damn, i'll be in europe. rock and roll.

i also had two papers accepted to conferences for this fall, so after a full year in grad school without presenting a thing, i have two before the end of the year. pretty groovy.

also, i finally got funding! yay, no more paying for grad school. happy happy joy joy.

well, i am sure there will be tons of pics from europe (i think they are giving us two cameras to take with us for photos), so i will post them when i get back from each trip.

hope the rest of you are having a rockin summer.