The Prodigal returns...

Well, I have been receiving a few comments of late as to my recent absenteeism in posting. I must agree, it is most disgraceful, this long absence of mine. However, I have been having trouble adjusting to your so-called "American" ways of life. This is indeed a strange country, you drive on the wrong side of the road, light switches are no longer on the door frames, you do not sell any decent chocolate or Tim-Tams, I can never seem to get to sleep when the rest of you deem it to be sleep time and I seem to have near collisions w/ people on sidewalks every time I step out the door. It has been hard, among such alien life-forms, to get back on my feet. But soon, my gentle Yahoos, soon I will return to you and divulge my soul, or at the very least the manifold duplicities I executed in order to pull off this latest trip to Houghton (ha ha...I chortle to myself w/ glee to think of it). But at the moment, it is 20 minutes after 4 in the morning, and you Americanites all seem to think that now is a time for sleeping (isn't jet lag just a gorgeous thing?) so I will attempt to join you in your strange custom of "night time." We shall see if this is really all it's cracked up to be...