First snow (Wednesday)!

At first, it was spitty crappy snow, but when we left Bloc, it had become lovely. I think it was Thursday that it was so unexpectedly cold that the fountain was still going for a while. The wind was blowing the spray towards the library, and on one side, the flowers and such were covered in ice. Beautiful:

In other words, I am filled with impotent rage. About two hundred of my files are safe but inaccessible on Ivanovich’s MSU disk space. Included in those files are transcripts, labels, and papers for the linguistics research project that Ganglebot and I have been involved with for over a year (almost two years for me). In less than a week, I will be going to Flagstaff with our project coordinator; there, we will meet the Swedish linguist we’ve been teleconferencing with. Together, we are going to present this research – schemata and data from two separate but linked projects – and assist the comp sci/applied linguistics world in building the robots that will eventually rule us. It’s pretty exciting.


WHY, THEN, HAS MSU SUDDENLY DISABLED THE FILES? WHY DO THEY REFUSE TO GRANT ME ACCESS? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!