And, in a cunning ploy to guarantee that we don't have social lives in January or February, the first Object Oriented Programming course of next year is not only in Eiffel, which will be a completely new language to almost all of us, but will also be spread out in five weekly installments, which must be handed in week by week to receive any feedback - which, it being a new language to us, we might possibly need. Ho-hum. So, after my birthday, I might not be seen all that much until the end of February. Mutter.