(Actually, I'm not -- just communicating efficiently with lots of people I know -- hope to see some of you at Communities & Technologies conference this week at Michigan State). I received a letter today (the old-fashioned way) telling me that I had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. According to [[Wikipedia]], "election to Fellowship in the Society is the highest academic accoldate available to scientists and scholars in Canada." The RSC was founded in 1882 and modeled on the UK Royal Society (Newton and all that). Besides kvelling, the election gives me the right to use the mysterious initials "FSRC" after my signature (as below). The RSC calls it a "postnomial": my (and perhaps your) new word for the day. With this, and Bev/my pending 42nd anniversary, I feel both content and looking forward to more adventures in scholarship and love in the next decades. Barry Wellman, FRSC _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender now _____________________________________________________________________