For what it's worth, someone asked where I'd been, and I'm just now obliging them while trying to lurk it up a bit more.

As most of you no doubt know, I am a student as ASU, and I believe you were all updated on the status of my Canadian girlfriend (she really is real, guys). Well, long story short I more or less moved to Calgary to be with her at the beginning of last summer. Originally I planned to stay the summer and come back for my last two semesters at ASU, but plans changed while we were up here and we decided to bring her down to Arizona to live with me for a few months (she's taking her degree online), we were all set to go, apartment and everything all set up and waiting for us, and she was denied at the boarder, because white chicks from Canada are the number on threat to United States Security.

After getting a return ticket and various other proofs of her ties to Canada, we attempted again and were denied again with threat of her being banned from the States for five years if she did not wait six months to build more ties to her home country. I made the decision to get all of my courses switched to online courses and stayed here after being accepted for a work visa, which gives me another year of amnesty. I've been able to get my last semester switched to online courses as well, and here I am today.

Needless to say, my online presence was cut down pretty heavily in light of the chaos that ensued, and I'm only just now creeping back into old haunts.

I know I was missed. Please leave any gifts at the door and ring the bell. Don't expect any thank-you cards. I'll be taking questions now: CDs are available in the lobby and I think I still have a few t shirts left somewhere in my car.