Let the following be known:

1. The new Alpha Sigma Alpha brand is quite lovely and much more refined than the old one.

2. Richard Hammond is an extremely attractive human being.

3. I am probably too attached to the use of adverbs.

4. Every interesting class at Knox during winter term 2012 is 2nd period MWF (or MWTF). Slight problem.

5. The German word for "oregano" is, helpfully, "oregano".

6. My Facebook "list of inspirational people" consists of a former British foreign service officer, a dead political philosopher, a journalist, a prominent IR scholar, Richard Hammond, and the Oxford comma. I am so cool.