Nod and Smile

The adventures of Jean Crawford, Starr Linguist

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Entries from July 2008

My love-hate relationship with the French #1: Humor

July 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments

For those who may not know, I am in Paris for the month of July. It is a working vacation–Jay has math workshops, I have a linguistics conference, and we have about two weeks inbetween these things. We are hooked up in a nice apartment in the 2nd, after a pretty harrowing experience […]

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Tags: Just Wondering · LHRF · Linguistics · Non-Linguistics · sigh · travel

Graduate School: A form of bipolar disorder?

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: comics · grad student life

Apparently Delta reads my blog.

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

In April, I posted about Delta’s under the radar change of their baggage policy where they decided not only to charge $25 for a second checked bag, but also decided not to tell so many people about it. At that time, I questioned our friendship, said we’d get along much better if they just […]

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Tags: Non-Linguistics · sigh · travel