For the AAG meeting in Boston, I helped organize the World Geography Bowl team for the East Lakes Division team.  The World Geography Bowl is a trivia quiz competition in which teams from a number of AAG regions compete.  The ELD team performed pretty well, winning the first four matches, but losing the last three in the round-robin, good enough for fourth place out of eight teams.  Because I did fairly well in those first four matches, I was somewhat accidentally (on my part) awarded the World Geography Bowl MVP for the tournament.

I've decided to post my AAG paper.  It's a pretty big pdf file, but I wanted to put it out there for people who aren't going to see it in Boston.  It's a little piece of my dissertation work on Hurricane Katrina.  Enjoy!

I've decided to endorse the candidacy of Barack Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and, of course, for president.  I'm planning to work in his campaign and do everything I can to help him achieve the nomination by winning the March 4 Ohio primary.