UPDATE 2009: I welcome you to my personal site, but it is terribly in need of total reconstruction and updating. I have been, unfortunately, busier than I would like, and thus, unable to update the site in a way I would like. For the most part, it has been in such a state for at least two years, so to me it feels a bit like walking into an old bedroom of mine I've long since moved out of, with a bed that doesn't feel like my own anymore. If you have moved around enough within a short enough time frame, that metaphor makes sense; for me it goes a step deeper, for I have never had a bedroom that felt like home to me. Yes, even the bedroom in which I grew up for the first fourteen years of my life. Of course, I've never been quite sure what 'home' really means, or should mean, or what it feels like; and perhaps I've spent most of my life trying to figure that out--among so many other things of which I wonder. But, for now, I've promised to work on this site this summer; perhaps, between here and there, I shall have time to work on it piecemeal. And so, if you have any interest, you should stop by sometime then.