Petra, thanks for the suggestions...but I will not follow them (or, maybe I will print them out and think about it before a 1 month cruise on the North Anatolia fault in 2007). It is my job to make the grad students look good by being disfunctional. I am not nauseous at all...not even a tiny bit...and I am not taking any seasick medication. It is the mental stuff...hey, did you enjoy my typos in the quote from the book?.
Chris