OPP, Internet Update

The internet connection at Joe's, my home for the summer, has been down since early Wednesday evening. I keep hearing that it'll be back up "soon", but I've lost confidence in its actually being so. The last couple days, my only internet access has been from work. What this means for some of you is: (1) I have not been able to update the Papers Blog. (2) I haven't been able to read email from home (and am not sure whether I'll be able to this weekend). So email is a much less reliable way to contact me evenings and weekends than, say, telephone. (3) I haven't been on Instant Messenger any evenings, and don't know if I will be this weekend. This is frustrating because I'm an extremely internet-dependent person.