Ehtyar!!!!

What an awesome read. As much as I shy away from most human contact in real life, I'm just loving hearing updates about people's lives here in this thread. As I said before -- no need to apologize or feel guilty for moving on to other interests.. It's just great to hear from you!
(I'm afraid I left my PhD program, which remains a tender issue for me, but that's for another day). Thank you -- and everyone else -- for sharing part of yourself here. It's been such a pleasure to be able to share a small slice of life with you all.