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There've been too many silly incidents with Linguistics teachers and random people on campus to maintain any respectable level of birthday angst for long.
Dr. Bowern, with her unmistakable British/Australian combo accent, declared this morning, erasing a reconstruction problem on the board, that we must "rid ourselves of these turbulent gammas!" This morning, in a discussion of the intervocalic rhotic shift at the ends of Latin words like flos, she noted the exception "formosus", a word Catullus uses, so she says, "in the sense of 'hot chick', 'together bloke', or 'hoopy frood'." And then, after a slightly discouraging Aural Skills, Dr. Englebretson informed us calmly that the answer to the homework question as to whether Indonisian has a copula is not just "no," but "Hell, no!"
Then, walking home, there were two professor-looking guys tending a solar oven on the grass next to the dumpster entrance. They greeted me enthusiastically as I walked by, and I asked them what they were cooking. Just water, for practice, but cool!
And now I have SG-1 season 9! Plus about six new Bobs albums and two different performances of The Hour-Glass and Barber's Reincarnations and the anthology of sheet music to the King's Singers Christmas album. No studio this afternoon, so maybe I can take my computer to the Apple Store and get Garageband to work so I can record all the parts to every song in there and fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming the King's Singers. Who, by the way, are performing in Stude on November 14th! I can't wait to get tickets.
Dr. Bowern, with her unmistakable British/Australian combo accent, declared this morning, erasing a reconstruction problem on the board, that we must "rid ourselves of these turbulent gammas!" This morning, in a discussion of the intervocalic rhotic shift at the ends of Latin words like flos, she noted the exception "formosus", a word Catullus uses, so she says, "in the sense of 'hot chick', 'together bloke', or 'hoopy frood'." And then, after a slightly discouraging Aural Skills, Dr. Englebretson informed us calmly that the answer to the homework question as to whether Indonisian has a copula is not just "no," but "Hell, no!"
Then, walking home, there were two professor-looking guys tending a solar oven on the grass next to the dumpster entrance. They greeted me enthusiastically as I walked by, and I asked them what they were cooking. Just water, for practice, but cool!
And now I have SG-1 season 9! Plus about six new Bobs albums and two different performances of The Hour-Glass and Barber's Reincarnations and the anthology of sheet music to the King's Singers Christmas album. No studio this afternoon, so maybe I can take my computer to the Apple Store and get Garageband to work so I can record all the parts to every song in there and fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming the King's Singers. Who, by the way, are performing in Stude on November 14th! I can't wait to get tickets.