Hello, I feel like I owe the board a bit of an apology and an explaination for why I've been so flakey lately in regard to GSAS business. Parker and I have been having a very rough time in the last few months, and a few weeks ago we hit the point where we will be seperating. After a nine year relationship it is not an easy thing to do... but if you also consider that I'm broke, unemployed and filed bancrupcy earlier this year, well I'm sure you can see that I need to be spending my energy on things other than writing a blurb "from the president" for the newsletter. I sort of wanted to mention it to people at the last meeting, but it is still a very akward subject to bring up. In light of what I'm going through right now, I'm thinking about taking a temporary leave of office for a few months -- just until I'm at least employed and have a new place to live. I feel like I haven't been doing a very good job (not that there is much to do) and that it would be better if no one was really counting on me for anything. I've been trying to keep things in my life as normal as possible through this transition, but I'm realizing that things like GSAS have been starting to slip through the cracks. --Heather