i retreat with my tail between my legs. sorry. the playfulness was *way* over my head. if it's any excuse, i was writing with the most pounding hangover of my meagre life to date beating on my cranium. i should have stayed in bed yesterday. asleep. instead i got up and went to college. pretty sure i was the only girl there with a bullet in her guts. to brazenly echo something tim did a while back, here's an unpretentious bouquet of early blooming parentheses for dan: (((()))) and for will, probably one of the few people who could actually placate me. > I suppose I can attribute this to my poor > command of the English language. that's that darn playfulness again, isn't it? may i grovel with impunity, :affable helena