Tonight's stroke of genius:

6~8 oz. Tanqueray gin
2 garlic olives
1 stuffed cherry pepper

Shake the gin with ice and pour into a tall glass. Garnish with everything else.

I'm thinking of calling it a Pizza Martini. A version with vermouth is to come once I can afford to buy some vermouth.

I have returned to the Commonwealth. More later.

Oh yeah, I'm in California ( Read more... )

Update:

4 Days, 2 papers, 1 Midwest.

Things between me and California (and their statuses where applicable):

• 16 Days


• Semantics Presentation and associated write-up (Presentation is ready for tomorrow, write-up won't take long)


• Syntax squib and presentation (Planned, mostly thought through, shouldn't be imposing)


• Psycholing project and presentation (In some vague, mental shape. Paper ( Read more... )

WCCFL was fun, and Tucson is a pretty cool place. Met a lot of cool people (the MIT grad students were pretty fun), and got to catch up with the likes of survivorhandey and some other folks while running around town with mintyfreshsocksThe sort of glorious moment was after I had put up my poster on Sunday morning and Jorge came over to look at it. I had never talked to him ( Read more... )

In Massachusetts (and Maine for historical reasons), the 3rd Monday of every April is Patriots' Day, a state holiday meant to commemorate the first battles of the Revolutionary War ( Read more... )

Follow-up to last post:

Chance of snow for western Massachusetts near 100% for Thursday night.

I'm getting sick of the cold ( Read more... )

My grandfather died Tuesday night a little after 9:00 PM ( Read more... )