I wouldn't mind public speaking except that I have a stutter (maybe it's called stammer in Canada, I know that's what it's called in England) which is usually pretty mild but when I'm talking in front of a lot of people it gets pretty bad. Thanks though

If it's on TV, I will try! Not yet, we haven't tried to talk to my parents again. Are you going to get to go to any Muse gigs this summer? I think there's one in San Fransisco

Yeah, it doesn't fit with the whole "government by the people, for the people" ideal that America was started on

I play my dad sometimes too. I have a couple friends who can play, but they're all a lot better than I am. Risk is so much fun! I get so into it. I like taking Africa and South America, or North America and South America. What about you? In Scattergories you have a die with most of the letters on the alphabet on it and you roll it and start a timer and each player has a list of 12 categories (brand name, thing you would bring on vacation, desert, weapon, disease, stuff like that). So say you roll an A, every player tries to come up with one thing for as many categories as possible. Then when the timer goes off, everyone goes around and reads theirs and the other players decide if they work or not. The player with the most wins. I also really like Apples to Apples

I never played that but I really think I would like it. And the Civilization series. The only computer game I played was SimCity, which I loved

That sounds great! I'm sure you'll do a great job