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Mar. 19th, 2002 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vyvyanxYesterday evening, G and I decided to eat out for the first time in a while, so we went to La Margherita, a very nice Italian restaurant I used to go to a lot with IWJ. The waiter was still the same. We had a really nice meal (if a bit pricey), then walked back to G's place via Staples, where I tried to get G not to buy a CD rewriter straight away. Went home, drank a bit, felt really tired and dropped off for a bit. Much later, G came to bed; this morning, he ended up leaving for work rather later than was desirable.
I came back to the centre on the bus with him, then to college via Pret A Manger (my appetite seems to have returned, happily). Posted a long article to a bdsm newsgroup about the Great Vowel Shift. Someone else had posted about it, and their post was full of intolerable inaccuracies :-) I hope they don't flame me for pointing out their errors; I tried to do it in a nice way. I only ever seem to post to usenet about historical linguistics, whether the newsgroup is for general chat, local affairs, nethack or bdsm! Very sad, but I can rarely bring myself to post about anything I feel less than 100% confident about, so that pretty much restricts it to historical linguistics.
I love the Great Vowel Shift. I remember lecturing on it a couple of years ago; while walking to the lecture I became paranoid that when actually delivering it, I would absent-mindedly call it the Great Bowel Shift. The GVS is described, amongst other things, here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~marisal/ie/english.html
I've been emailed by a guy I met giving a talk here last year, at the MacDonald Institute. He's invited me to go to NZ to work with him for a couple of weeks on language classification using biological methods. It sounds really cool, but I feel rather nervous about the travel. I don't really like travel. Also I'm going to be away at the start of April and May, and should probably be around most of the coming term to supervise and fulfil my examining duties. Also, G's situation is rather up-in-the-air atm, with jobs and housing and that, and I don't want to be elsewhere if he's having some crisis. Rrg. I don't really know what to do.
Tonight is the Calling - excellent! G's set will be an hour and forty minutes; he'll be on second, after GC and before Loki. I'm really looking forward to it and hope it all goes well.
I must have a bath and go to Sainsbury's and do other useful stuff.
I came back to the centre on the bus with him, then to college via Pret A Manger (my appetite seems to have returned, happily). Posted a long article to a bdsm newsgroup about the Great Vowel Shift. Someone else had posted about it, and their post was full of intolerable inaccuracies :-) I hope they don't flame me for pointing out their errors; I tried to do it in a nice way. I only ever seem to post to usenet about historical linguistics, whether the newsgroup is for general chat, local affairs, nethack or bdsm! Very sad, but I can rarely bring myself to post about anything I feel less than 100% confident about, so that pretty much restricts it to historical linguistics.
I love the Great Vowel Shift. I remember lecturing on it a couple of years ago; while walking to the lecture I became paranoid that when actually delivering it, I would absent-mindedly call it the Great Bowel Shift. The GVS is described, amongst other things, here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~marisal/ie/english.html
I've been emailed by a guy I met giving a talk here last year, at the MacDonald Institute. He's invited me to go to NZ to work with him for a couple of weeks on language classification using biological methods. It sounds really cool, but I feel rather nervous about the travel. I don't really like travel. Also I'm going to be away at the start of April and May, and should probably be around most of the coming term to supervise and fulfil my examining duties. Also, G's situation is rather up-in-the-air atm, with jobs and housing and that, and I don't want to be elsewhere if he's having some crisis. Rrg. I don't really know what to do.
Tonight is the Calling - excellent! G's set will be an hour and forty minutes; he'll be on second, after GC and before Loki. I'm really looking forward to it and hope it all goes well.
I must have a bath and go to Sainsbury's and do other useful stuff.
