I have been reading science fiction for that isolation stimulation up in Japan! What do you recommend? I love Richard Morgans books. Also read Neuromancer, Dune and Ender's game... whatchu readin?
I've spent the last couple hours cataloging each wrinkle on my face. On a completely unrelated note, one of my students referred to an article published in 1988 as "an article from the late 1900s". Welcome to my mental breakdown!