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no this is not a meme. But I haven't updated in a while, and besides, I wanted to show some LJ solidarity in the face of anti-LJ snarkiness. (Actually, I think those two cartoons are double-sarcastic, which cancels it all out again. But I digress.)

• I got back from the conference on Monday and was completely beat. Met lots of nice people, including gangs of grad students from OGI, MIT and UMass Amherst, who were all very well represented.
• I was invited to join the AARP yesterday. I find it hard to imagine I'm really eligible. And they're bastards anyway.
• I am one of the vice presidents of our graduate student organization this year. This means I have to get to arrange speakers for the Friday colloquia and then stand up and welcome them.
• It looks like I may be researching work on transliteration and language-of-origin identification for Chinese-to-English MT this quarter.
• the new comp-ling master's students got very upset at one of the faculty today because they don't know what their internships will look like. I understand their frustration. My internship wasn't much fun, either. Their panic was no fun to watch though and I'm not sure it's useful or productive for them to pick on the faculty.
• imtboo made me dinner. On the way there, I got to go to the comic book store, and talk to my brother on the telephone. imtboo and I are sitting around the dining room table together on laptops. She is [re]writing her play.

Life feels good.