well...that was painful.  but, I wrote about 700 words on the policy, environment, and happenings of southern Vietnam.  sending to Annemarie now for what's sure to be a substantial round of edits.  oi!

on the docket for tomorrow...er, or should I say on the docket for next time: beginning to type up some of the background from this stack of papers I need to read on trajectory analysis for time series data.