Adventures

How nice

I got a lovely email this morning from one of my former students in Decatur. He is a Haitian young man, very intelligent, and he is now going to university. Here's the absolute sweetest thing he said (or any student could say):

You really helped me develop the attitude and the skillls necessary to go on with further studies.

So nice. It makes me smile.

Brush with fame

As an avid reader of Language Log and a once-in-a-very-great-while correspondent with its writers, i was ecstatic to see this posted today by Prof. Geoffrey Pullum:

The University of Glasgow's Faculty of Arts promulgated in 2002 a policy (see it here) that apparently relates to transfer of credit from foreign universities. But what it says, even in the main header to the page (and I thank Judith Blair for bringing this to my attention), is that it concerns "Grades received furth of Glasgow". What the hell is furth?

Read the entire article here.

Mush

Mush. That would be my brain at this point. Let me tell you, doing a masters degree at the same time as planning a wedding is not good for the grey matter. My local friends can attest that i have begun losing things (hey, guys, i found my gloves!), and my professors can confirm my mediocre academic performances (still passing-quality though).

Today i sent an email to David, our officiant and best pal, asking him what he might be thinking of wearing for the ceremony. I told him that Universal Life Church, through which he is ordained, has cossacks. Yes, i said cossacks. I looked at the word for a while with a nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right, but then i sent the email anyway. This was hours ago, and it only just hit me that what i meant was cassocks.

Cassocks. Cossacks. Close enough.

Image credits: Pearson Scott Foresman and Dariusz T. Wielec

15 Minutes worth spending

Kid Does His War on Terror School Project using Porn (Clean) from Arman Noory on Vimeo.

Atlanta

So, i have been watching some of the footage of the tornado(es) that ripped through Atlanta last Friday night, and it seems strange to me that i'm not there. After living in the city for 14 years, it has become just somewhere that i once lived, and that makes me a little sad in some ways. I will probably never live there again.

For coverage of the damage, check these links:

• WXIA Channel 11
• Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Commons
• Google