I'm at grad school!

Wow, the past two weeks have been...insane. Very many nice things, like surprising Jamie with her baby shower by telling her it was a going away party for me, and then actually getting gifts at said party. But also a lot of annoyances, like cramps and packing and getting there and discovering things which we really should have brought. But I'm settling in, I've survived my first week of classes and my really odd schedule of a class at 8:30am and my other class from 5:30-10pm. Now almost all the organizational details are taken care of, and I'm looking forward to getting and sending some fun mail.

I also want to say that I'm enjoying the phonetics part of History of the English Language far more than I should. Mostly because phrases like "voiceless alveolar fricative" sound like pejoratives. ;) And I take a certain pleasure in acquiring arcane knowledge.

I know I had a lot more to say on The Icarus Girl, but I can't really remember what that was, only to recommend it. It was a great read.