This is one of those dead-tired sort of days. But it’s okay. It should be the last one this quarter!
It was a necessarily busy day today. Had Quechua this morning and we did dialogs and had a little Peruvian feast. I wish I knew what anything was called or made of, because it certainly was delicious. Oh, and we drank some Inca Kola. Drinking neon yellow soda at 10 am is certainly a way to kick off a day. Anyway. Much fun was had in Quechua, and my heart is softening a bit towards that class. Probably a good time to have handed course evaluations out.
Went straight from Peruvian snacks to my lunch date with Bernard Comrie. It’s so amusing to have lunch with famous linguist-types. I don’t know what it is about being a grad student that gets you introduced to these folks. Maybe it’s the benevolence of those above you to spread your name around and get your face known. At any rate, it was great being invited to lunch. The food and company were both excellent, and I learned amusing things about Comrie that will stick with me for a while. He’s a good guy.
Had to ditch lunch a little early to go meet with my TAing professor, and then my research professor. This is the last set of homeworks I have to grade for this quarter, which is excellent, but sadly means that soon I have to grade the final. Had a very nice final meeting with my research professor, and wrapped up what we’ve been reading very nicely. Unfortunately he also assigned me a little write-up to do before the end of next week, so I didn’t quite escape without a short paper to do. Oh well. I sort of needed to synthesize what we’ve been doing anyway, so it will end up being rather useful later.
Spent a few minutes with Lewis in the sunshine on the Quad, and puttered about for my spare hour until it was time to go to Comrie’s talk! I’d seen him give portions of this talk in Cambridge before, but for some reason it was much more engaging this time. The talk seemed to fly by, and all the questions were very interesting. Before I knew it, it was 6:00 already and time to go home. Crashed a fair bit when I got here, didn’t make dinner… but I did watch some Colbert over some left-overs, and made a loaf of lemon bread for breakfast tomorrow.
All in all… a very successful, if draining, day!