Item 1: Be careful with your home-made-solar-powered-mp3-player-charger, because if you don't know what you're doing it might melt your mp3 player's battery so it has to be plugged in at all times.
Item 2: The U of A Linguistics Podcasts are almost ready.
Gary is a great supervisor and a busy man. At the sound of his voice in the hall, people literally ran to meet him. To meet with him to schedule other times to meet with him. And half of them were other professors.