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So, in my blogging absence, I have also been in complete neglect of my blogging friends, who have recently been having many interesting adventures all over the world. Go read about Josh in Japan, Allison elsewhere in Japan, Hannah in the DR, and Jill's Family in London. That is, if you care. Which you should!

Returning to Houston was a little strange, kind of like traveling someplace new, only to find that all your stuff is there and you've been living there for months. It's a hard feeling to explain. But now I'm all depressurized and settled in, classes have started, and the busy semester is springing into full form.

One recent development: Emily, acting on an inside tip, tried plugging our antenna-less television directly into the cable in the wall (we are hell no not paying for cable), and, lo and behold, the cable itself acts as an (extremely weak) antenna, and we now get upwards of four highly garbled channels. So tonight I watched Alias for the first time. My favorite moment came when Jennifer Garner's character was reunited with a fellow agent and ex-boyfriend who disappeared suddenly a few years ago, apparently. She is mad because he disappeared and didn't say anything to her. He is mad, also, because apparently, he tried to contact her, told her to meet him somewhere, and she didn't show up.

"I never got any letter," she says.

"I didn't send a letter, I can't afford to give any information about my assignment, you know that." Well, yeah, of course, I've been watching for five minutes and I know that much. But here was the kicker: He then says, "I sent you an encoded message in a junk email. You should have been able to pick it out from the subject line."

Okaaaaaaaaaaay....but get this. Then she says, completely seriously, "Oh. I set my computer to filter out junk emails!"

Duh-duh-DUUUUUUUUUUUH! The plot thickens! Within the next half hour, including commercial breaks, the two of them are in a place called Archangelsk, or something, retrieving something called a core hard drive, which must be kept at a temperature "halfway to absolute zero." Halfway from where? Anyway, apparently -150 degrees Fahrenheit is sufficient, and just as Alias is getting the computer out of the cold room, she falls and her helmet cracks, and she begins to freeze (I'll just call her Alias, I'm sure that's not the name of the character). But, never fear, the guy breaks in and gets her, and revives her with some good old mouth-to-mouth. Hey everyone! New cure for hypothermia! Just administer CPR! The rest takes care of itself! Works in seconds!

So anyway, the show is completely ridiculous, but I watched it in its entirety, because, well, we get four garbled channels.

So the moral of the story is, never set your computer to filter out junk email, because you never know when your friend who is a CIA operative will attempt to contact you through a subject line. I will always be prepared for that possibility.