I won’t go into the details of the evening, but suffice it to say that Chris and I spent the evening in Boston, involving ghosts of freshman RAs past, awkward seating arrangements, a parrot, and a second visit by the RA and his beau. (If you’re actually interested, there’s a play-by-play in a friended […]
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As The Tenser points out, there’s some new planet-renamin’ afoot.
The dwarf planet formerly known as Xena (you’ll see why it’s bold in a second) is now known as Eris (the goddess of strife). Makes good sense for the dwarf planet that caused the whole pluto-naming ruckus, right?
XenaEris’s moon has been named Dysnomia (Eris’s daughter. […]
I’ve finally settled into a pretty steady routine for the time being.
At the moment, things are dominated by the GREs, or as Danny calls them the ToD. I’ve been told that grad schools in linguistics weigh them less heavily than the other application materials, but at this point, “it’s personal”. So every night […]