Hiya JE.......Yogi might have phrased it, "You miss a lot when you're missing a lot," but I am sending you my very best on this wonderful work anyway. I haven't been around much these past few months and though I knew a little from my pipeline source (kat, of course) I am more than overjoyed to get the real poop.....uh, so to speak.........

Tell your students that you have received a great reward for their work and are now the recipient of The Order of the Fiery Kestrel. Tell them too that this is a very exclusive Order with only one member and it was bestowed upon you by a committee that rewards only the very best. You are indeed one of a kind and it's my honor to know you. Teaching such a class is actually the reward valued most and you have got that one first and foremost!!!

Spaw

PS....If they need anything to do, I would be happy to send them anything from the myriad stacks of unfinished tripe I have lying about. Perhaps they can find enough value in it to finish the stuff. I find it gets about half done and shifts categories in my mind from "Mildly Amusing" to "Pain in the Ass."