Hee hee. I remember when we started at Yale and you could still choose your own username. One (slightly crazy) friend of mine ended up stuck forever with the email address "yaleboy@yale.edu". We told him not to at the time, but he didn't regret it until he was applying for jobs...And that's not nearly as bad as "insanejohn" is.

I'm sorry about the cold. I know all about the sadly unproductive winter break, more's the pity. In any case, it sounds like there are several goods out there. And I look forward to hearing teaching stories about your crazy gender balance. Unsurprisingly, it's a problem I see a lot of, so I'll be interested in your take.