Semester coming to a close

We administered the final exam for the 101 class I TA today - now we just have to grade it. The last month or so has been a struggle - but I'll be rejoining the land of the living shortly.

I'm heading home to Texas on June 12th (the plane ticket is purchased!). In July I head to Stanford for the 2007 Linguistic Institute. I'm taking some interesting courses - Constraint-Based Generative Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Particles, Computational Linguistics, and Conversational Inference.

After the institute, I'll head back to Texas for a few weeks before going back to Massachusetts.

SALT talk given - phew

Chris Potts and I gave a talk at SALT yesterday - if you're curious, the slides are here.

My sister is coming in tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing her, though it's hard to keep my eyes open...

I'm pretty tired.

Mavericks still in!

I kept checking the score of the Dallas - Golden State game tonight while writing my generals paper. I finally had to run down to a local bar to watch the end of the game. I arrived with 48 seconds to go. I was pretty nervous, but the Mavs came back to win by six. I'll be there for the whole game on Thursday, with my Josh Howard shirt on.

I insist: you are a veil!

In the middle of a very unfunny article, I found the following:

Many Somalis were unhappy with the more extreme rules of the Islamic Courts: closing down the cinemas, banning music and insisting women were veils.

That is pretty extreme.

(Note: even with the correct spelling, the sentence is ambiguous. It could mean `they insist that it is true that women wear veils.' But I probably wouldn't have noticed this ambiguity without the typo.)

Texas Tornado

Quang snapped this nice shot of a tornado from his front porch in
Watauga last night.

The white stuff in the foreground is hail.

Don't try this at home kids.

LibraryThing

I've stumbled across a site (actually, linked to courtesy of friends at Language Log) that looks fun for book geeks: LibraryThing. My user name is kuritaro and I've just posted my latest acquisition.

The Neti Pot

I came across this flyer on my last trip to the laundromat, on the same bulletin board as I found "Actual Texans".


Before you go out and buy your very own Neti Pot, click on the picture and look closely at the man's left nostril.

...

Yeah.