mdlevine,
if you have microsoft word 2007, you can download a thingie from microsoft that enables you to create PDFs directly from word without needing to use google docs.
I don’t know if this download is available for earlier versions of word or not, I searched the microsoft site and didn’t see it but maybe I missed it. If you don’t have word 2007, maybe you can email it as a .doc to someone who does and they can make it into a pdf and send it back to you.