Its been an overwhelming few weeks. The semester completely got away from me and I was running just to keep up. Kalamazoo was amazing, which it never is, especially not the art history sessions. Then I went straight to Jury Duty, which was just mostly sitting around and at least allowed me to finish up my grading, but then ended suddenly after I got called up for a criminal case and the defendant decided to plead guilty - to kidnapping, rape, and assault. Finally my personal life seemed to fall apart around me and I still don't know what the resolution to that will be. To make a first reference to the title of this post - the problem is something I said, compounded by the person to whom I said it, whether or not she said something to someone else, and so on. I'm really not supposed to talk about it. Instead I'm trying to get back to that new awesome new Kalamazoo spirit by writing about some problems I had while I was working on my paper for the conference, which