If anyone's thinking of trying to get in touch with me June 17-25, I'll be on vacation. In Ireland. That sound you hear? Less than frantic last minute preperations. I plan on taking lots of pictures and *hiding* whenever Bill pulls out the video camera.

In spite of planning this thing for the last six months, (getting a passport is a pain in the ass, but not so bad as renewing a dirver's license) it still barely seems real to me that in less than a week I'm going to be in a foreign country. 'Course, being a huge european history buff and having wanted to do this *all my life*? Has nothign to do with the hamster running around in my head going "eeeeee!".