I am in one of my "Ack, A&M drives me nuts" days...the streaming lab has 15 functioning computers. It's in a brand-new room (the new A&M library or Learning Resource Center - LRC - officially opened last spring) but half the room has non-functioning computers -- they're either ancient or unwired or both. CPUs are jumbled on tables in the other half of the room along with unhooked-up scanners and keyboards. Some of my students are in the other lab cuz we don't have enough terminals here. The good thing is that the internet is up here. I get excited watching students invite each other to their blogs, read each other's works, comments on each other's choices of topics. There are a couple of essays I'm looking forward to reading....Dawn's essay on defining burnout for social workers, Kim's essay on explaining credit card debt. I'll know better what everybody's writing after I read the blogs later. Right now, I gotta get up to my office. I've got office hours and I've also got a meeting at either 12 or 1 and then another meeting at 3.30 at the public library. Gotta seriously jet ....