ooh, mail! Zach Strassburger, box 5229, 222 Church St, Middletown CT 06459. or you could come visit, like you and rk said you would do ages ago. isn't it rk's birthday soon? tell hir happy birthday for me.

and yeah, the ego stuff...is there a way to transfer it to being proud of the process, of being willing to work hard? obviously ego's not a very wonderful thing in the first place, but if we called it "self-confidence" instead...