I thought I'd try and give more regular updates about life as well. It often feels as if there isn't a lot to tell. It just goes as it goes. Yet, I can write a couple of pages about it when I'm writing a letter, so there should be something to tell, shouldn't there?

Life is going quite well, though it has been really busy over the last couple of ( Read more... )

Although in recent years a lot of important comparative-historical research has been done on the morphology of Old Irish, there are still many gaps to be filled. One such gap is the secondary verbs in Old Irish on which no detailed research has been done as yet. I aim to research the patterns and layers of derivation in these verbs. There are ( Read more... )

Woohoo, after all these months, first part of my data-collection is now finished. It's a mile-stone. Of course, this is only the start. I have to collect verbs from the Milan Glosses as well (and there's no Lexicon of that corpus, so I will actually have to read them...), and of course when I actually have these verbs, I will need to do something ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day at work in the old place. It's closing. That seems to be my doom :) Seriously, though, it does make me wonder. But probably the reason is, again, location, and not me. Anyway, I'll have a hard time getting my new place closed, since it's been there since forever. It's a restaurant in a hotel, and it's a job as a waitress ( Read more... )

I've got a flu type of thingy which I had hoped would be gone by now, but it isn't. Still a headache, still ear troubles. Pain in my throat is gone, thank God. At work they told me, basically, that I have been ill too often and it may not happen again, or... (I've been ill three times, each time for a week, since September. I understand where they' ( Read more... )

* I'm tired, run-down, overworked
* That's partly my own fault, parly the way uni works here and partly the career I have chosen
* I might have made the wrong career choice: Will I be able to survive in a career where people are nasty to each other? And if I am able to survive, will I live?...
* If I stop now, I 'only' have a BA degree, which frankly ( Read more... )

The weather is brilliant. It's really cold, I think we had some frost this night, and it's clear and crisp and... dry! I think this is the best weather ever and whenever I get outside, I really enjoy it. Of course the smell of rotting leaves adds to the magic. 
Unfortunately that magic ends as soon as I arrive in the office. This morning I was quite ( Read more... )

Woohoo, I am writing from my very own (well... shared) office. Once again! And this time hopefully for good, that is, for the next three years. Everything really seems to be working so far (keeping my fingers crossed that it still will be tomorrow!...) and I am sooo relieved... At least I can now start to find my own space a bit. I have been ( Read more... )

Pity that I still have to be here for another hour, though the reason is quite nice. At 6.30 the Fantasy Science Fiction Society meets and I'm going to play rpg's. Beware ( Read more... )

"Every begin is in chaos," my supervisor said the other day, and more and more I am beginning to see that he was right. Life has been absolutely hectic for me, because nothing was organised when it should be. I was not able to register in time, which means I still don't have a postgrad library card, I cannot yet use the internet at university and ( Read more... )