My cat always comes for some love when I have to leave. No wonder I’m late all the time.
I actually got some good work done today. I am still terrifyingly terrifyingly behind, though. Tonight I will have much caffeinated things with sugar, possibly at a 24h Second Cup nearish me. Tomorrow I have an abstract […]
Snow — the first I’ve seen this almost-winter.
A friend pointed out the first icicle of the season. I find it lacks something in comparison to, say, the first robin or tulip or lilac tree in bloom of the year.
(New linguistics posts coming soon.)
Being a Canadian at Thanksgiving is similar to — but not as bad as — being a Jew over Christmas.
A lovely coffee with my old advisor. Now everyone knows I’m a semanticist wannabe. (Stress on wannabe. Of course now that I’ve told everyone I’ll change my mind. Oh well.)
Background:
At Canada U, there wasn’t much semantics. Oh, there was one person who was, supposedly, a semanticist, but he’s really a failed mathematician. Also hasn’t published […]
I say days because — though I am not in the States — I got one of those “you spent lots of money, here’s a free turkey” turkeys. But it’s 20 pounds. And we’re 5 people here. And one of us doesn’t eat turkey. And one of us has had to go away because the […]
I told a friend yesterday that I had a blog, but for some reason held back on giving her the URL. I’m trying to figure out why. There’s nothing here I haven’t told her — she knows far more about, say, my feelings of Not Good Enough than I’ve posted here. I have not shared […]
Set a meeting with one of my old advisors. She’s a phonologist. I’m . . . not. So it’s mostly just a random chat. But it will be nice. I will have to try to remember to hold my tongue, though. Not that there’s much inapppropriate that I have to say — I have a […]
I am totally without a work ethic.
I will not expand on this more, though it would certainly prove the point.
[1] I keep singing that to the old “Journey into Imagination” tune. I preferred the old ride to the current one.
Or, more discussion of Fresh Fish.
I played it again Friday night, with my cousin and then a second game with my cousin and my uncle. My cousin won the first game and I won the second (or maybe the other way around? I can’t even remember) which just shows how much prior experience helps. […]
Back home, where the internet connection is weird. I can connect directly to the modem, but my computer has trouble recognising the connection when it’s via the router. (None of the other computers have issues.) And we have a router at my, um, other home, and my computer works just fine there.
Curious.
Okay, now I really […]