So for the last couple of months, I've been preparing my summer course for the Intro to Ling class. I've put a considerable amount of time into this by now, as you might imagine, and was therefore utterly dismayed to discover I'm supposed to be teaching a completely different course.

GAAAAAAAAAAAH!The worst part is that it's completely my fault ( Read more... )

( ...or Why You Should Only Change Your Appearance To Please Yourself (TM). )

( People. Full of it. )

( ...well, at least not in the realm of theoretical semantics. )

The good news ( Read more... )

So a while back, I had a hard drive failure and did all sorts of magic to fix it before simply transferring data and getting a new one. The problem, however, seems to be that I didn't transfer all the data I should have. Most notably, the updates I made in the last two years on my code for my mathematical linguistic model foo didn't make it. ( ( Read more... )

....for my former Intro to Linguistics students about the grading policy.

1. Being shocked that you have a C in the class weeks after the semester is over and you had all your grades available to you will earn you no sympathy.
2. Crying about how you would have brought me doctor's notes for all the classes you skipped....er, missed...if you had but ( Read more... )

Why must everything break at once ( Read more... )

( Phew )

( Parents are strange beasts )