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[trochee]

In no particular order:

• I'm on a search committee for computational linguistics faculty; I spent a good part of yesterday reading through applications. It's a bit of an ego-battering, because nearly every application is very strong and -- of course -- has recommendations from people who think the applicant is awesome. I may one day be one of these people.
• I received a package today from trombo2 and lapartera; it includes Dutch tulips (yes! they'll be worth millions!) from trombo2's trip to that nether land, and lovely mended socks for exterra and me from lapartera.
• I'm working through my morphology paper and it's going to be a bit rather way way way over the expected length. It's supposed to be 5 pages, but I'm only half-finished with section 2 (of 4 plus appendix) and it's already 5 pages.

Back to work.

Comments

[thevorak.livejournal.com]

Heh. In my grad school they'd punish you for going over limits. "Your boss will never have time to read anything more than two pages, so I won't read more than that either!" Not that I never had to write long papers, but 'policy memos' were all the rage. It's frustrating, but you learn to be brutal and care less about nuances, and thrust your opinions out there. Hmmm, is that why our government works the way it does now?