A "Composition Challenge" has been added to the SCI website, in an effort to entertain composers and their offspring. Go check it out if you're in the mood to write against a motive. On a sidenote, I'll try to limit the crossposting of news after that site has an audience, but until more people than myself and Jim Barry visit, I'll whore out this news page to get new faces over there .

Next semester I may be taking as many as seven credits of Independent Study to stay in the assistantship game. I'll probably continue doing Fundamentals software work as a D.I.S. while teaching a class or something like that.