To borrow a term from Simon that I rather like, things have been “fuck insane”. A couple of mystery illnesses, one urgent care visit, a meeting with my doctor and several vials of blood work later conclude that…my mystery illness remains a mystery. The doctor said it was probably nothing and that I otherwise appear to be in good health. Hooray.
And what a grand time to be in otherwise good health! I’ve been frantically pounding away at my Speech Prosody project…reading a lot about second occurrence focus and trying to decide if I want to make the study SOF-only or to be daring and possibly include something about contrastive focus reduplication (as in SALAD-salad). The whole experimentation thing is mostly new to me (outside of the time I spent working in Toby Mintz’s Language Dev Lab at USC), but this SOF stuff is really neat. So…in about a week or so, I’ll have more interesting things to report.
Lastly, I’d like to point you all to the most recent episode of This American Life (the radio show). It’s a re-broadcast of their Peabody Award winning segment called “Habeas Schmabeas” in which they discuss Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus and the people being denied habeas at Gitmo. It’s an absolutely fantastic hour, and the interviews conducted with the former detainees are just incredible. You can download the mp3 of the broadcast free for a limited time at the TAL site, subscribe to the podcast and get it for free at any time, or stream the episode for free at the site as well.
emma :: May.01.2007 ::
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