um, i've been preoccupied with a lot of stuff here. posting from kaz is difficult when i'm unwilling to mention on this site 90% of the stuff i obsess about.
in any case, my 6.5 month stay in kaz is drawing to a close. on june 29th i will be back in the u.s. it's not exactly a happy ending to this adventure (though that isn't off the table yet either). i'm sure when i get back, i can bore all my meatland friends with the exciting details of our ongoing bureaucratic nightmare here in kafkastan. mrs. noz will stay here and mind the boy (hopefully) until we reach that mythical successful conclusion.
