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Well, last night I finished the work for the quarter, and I had a beer and watched the boob tube alone for the whole evening. It's a strange feeling of pushing through a wall and suddenly having it give way and then I'm just trying to keep my balance while the thing falls away from me.

Nevertheless, an "off" day like today was still pretty busy, because I slept in until about 10, but had a chance to see

exterra who came home for a few hours to get a nap before we walked together to work, stopped with her at one of our local coffeeshops (Stellina's) and got to play johnnie-on-the-spot and fix the network connectivity problems at

exterra's work, all of whom were going to lunch in the U-District, and I caught a ride up there on a whim so that I could return Arabic morphology library books, after which I went over to the lab just to check in, and discovered that I have a new desktop computer there with a very nice new [flatscreen 21 inch!] monitor, on which I checked email and discovered that I was the missing piece for a conversation with the Fairly Famous East Coast University we're collaborating with, so I sat down to wait for the phone call and cleaned (yes!) my desk at the lab from which I must have thrown away 300 sheets of paper and actually cleaned the surface so that with the new monitor's small footprint I now have an actual. desk. surface.
Okay, that was difficult and I keep running out of breath reading through it.
At the phone call with the Fairly Famous East Coast University, we worked out what we'll be working on for the conference paper we're trying to do together. Then I got to hang out with WM, a lab-mate and a fellow linguist, and we discussed social network theory, which seems to be based on the rather self-evident premise that a social group is not defined by "lower-class" or "educated" or "pink-collar" or any other dividing category, but defined by the network of people that make it up. While that seems like an obvious thing, it makes me think about Livejournal, and I wonder what can be done there: we have linguistic information combined with an explicit mapping of relationships...
I had a chance to hang out briefly with

beckyb by dragging myself to her office and sitting down so she would talk to me. I walked with her over to return more library books and then discussed future directions for my phonetics research.
I wrapped up the day with a trip to Zanadu Comics, and came away with quite the haul, perhaps deserving a separate entry.
I came home and made simple dinner (rice and beans) and am catching up on LJ.