Hello all. In the real world, I am known as Nicole. I am a 21 year old college student learning interactive media design. I've moved quite a bit lately and now live in northwest Arkansas, though my heart is still on the east coast.

In case people were wondering why I haven't been on lately, I am forced to use a satellite connection. I have to pay $80 a month for the *priveledge* of having a limit of 425mb of downloads a day, a 1.6mbps connection, and latency of about 1500 milliseconds. It's so bad, I'm waiting for a dial up modem so I can play using the 56k modem we have for emergencies. This is especially annoying because our neighbors across the street have cable. Yeah. The company doesn't want to pay to extend it, and they won

't answer our bribes. I'm rather surprised it's let me get this far into posting, it's been cutting me off every few minutes.

I do own a condo in Dallas, and someday I hope to actually be able to move down there again. Hated Dallas, but loved how I only had about $300 a month in expenses. That will be a huge boon when I'm ready to find my first job.

Well, hope to see you all in Avalon, and maybe my connection will behave enough for me to talk to you all from time to time.

Written by my hand on the 9th of Midwinter, in the year 1228.