Well fishboy, i'm locked in this institution known as college, and though they do (i just found out) allow MSN and other such IM's, currently they have been diabled and blocked due to a virus thats being transfered through IM's (aparently) and since this place has a multi-million dollar digital hard drive for the whole campus (every single school computer is hooked up to that thing), they tend to frown on programs that leave the hard drive open to infection. Otherwise, i'd be chatting away like normal.