Though I spent the last couple of entries mad at el boyfriend, he and I have since made up and resolved the source of our problems: miscommunication, per usual. And, nothing like a little illness to bond over! I'm happily nursing something that I hope is the flu and not the brain tumor I suspect it to be. Saturday night, Nath came over with ( Read more... )

Execution of All Things may very well be my favorite album to listen to while testing the depths of my self-deprecation ( Read more... )

Kinda old news, but I got a call Monday night from Dani Byrd, the head of the Department of Linguistics at USC saying that I've been admitted into their graduate program with full 5-year funding guaranteed. W00t! Still to hear from NYU, McGill, MIT, and UMass ( Read more... )

I know I never update, but in case anybody has me on their friends list ( Read more... )

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http://boundvariable.blogspot.comviva le republique and long live free knowledge, free information, free culture, free software and free hardware. oh wait. long live freedom ( Read more... )

Here's why:

I'm STILL in school.

It's been raining all week.

I celebrated the fourth of July in Germany, singing the Star Spangled Banner drunk off Sternburg.

Oh, and I still have no passport.

I lost my passport. I am a fucking idiot.

Last night I got dragged to a show by a new friend in Berlin, and boy oh boy was I glad that I went. Not only did I meet some totally rad Germans there, but the bands that played were GREAT. Very cool indie improv. Anyways, one of the bands, Norfolk & Western, came over and chatted with us for a bit and told me that they and M. Ward, the main ( Read more... )

So I went into office hours today to talk to my variable binding professor, who is a nice guy, very nice, and the class is very interesting, but...My presentation on the Syntax of Independence. And I have to give it in German. Now my German's pretty decent but I don't know if I'll be able to say things like "When you look at this example, it's ( Read more... )

I'm back in Germany. (I have been for a while.) I blew off almost everyone I knew while I was home. (I am a shitty friend.) Well, that was fun.