Hello guys,

This my first post in quite a long while, if you don't count the nonsense post that Hammad and I just made and erased. It was good to read the latest posts -- good luck to you Yamanda! You'll start hearing back soon, right?

I am still at Georgetown, now in the second half of my second year. There is an oh-no-scary Qualifying Review in a month and a half where I could (potentially, at least) get kicked out of the program, so I have to get professors to write letters of recommendation saying yes, I should stay in, and yes, I might have the stamina to finish a dissertation.

Hammad is here in the soulless condo canyon that is Virginia square. The median age is 302. Everyone rides around on rascal scooters and has small poodle mixes. So we have been going out to amuse ourselves. We saw inauguration from a great distance. {check my facebook} WE have visited the local ice rink but have not skated there. At some point, hopefully I will end up skating there possibly with Julia and Duchess in tow. And hopefully that modelicious-looking guy we saw will be there again.

Other news is that I can't type anything and have to use a speech recognition program called Dragon. I have to say "Press Control Sierra" any time I want to save a word document. My roommate can hear everything I do on the computer. This is all because I have weird wrist pains which no doctor can diagnose, much less cure. Clearly this doesn't inhibit my ability, however, to post on group blogs. YAY

OK well I hope to read and post more often. Until then bye bye!