Surreality

w00t!

This pleases me greatly, for no good reason at all. Yay for the surging popularity of alphanumeric words!

....for I passed my thesis defense. I'm a doctor, I'm a doctor!

:: does happy dance ::

And how long did it take my lab cohorts to change the sign on my office from "graduate student" to "Dr. jalenstrix"? Less than 15 minutes? Why yes, yes it did. Oh, how I loves them, preeeeecious.

And then there was the OV/VO word order parameter cake. So much linguistically geeky love.

And I was so pleased to see/partially see/vaguely know they were outside the door because the room was packed: thewronghands, treyvadi, charliezaunt. So. Much. Love. [grin]

And so much love from everyone who wished me millions of luck today, though they couldn't be here.

Yay, the love and hurrah!

(1) A thoroughly good evening may well include (a) an impromptu paso doble/flamenco danced in a Japanese restaurant as the chef beats out a rhythm with a fork and a metal pepper shaker, (b) flying attack shrimp, courtesy of the very same chef, and (c) exorbitant amounts of laughter.

(2) UDelaware is frickin' awesome. Yes, yes, it is. So much interest have they in me and I in them! Hurrah.

...about working at home is the ability to take a 20-minute DDR break instead of a lunch break. And then, when I am done with the DDR-ing, my brain is happy to settle back down to work.

Visit to Yale went absolutely smashingly. I am a happy, happy monkey. It's one of those times where I don't think there's anything I could have done better, so no matter what happens, I don't have any regrets about today.

:: happy dance of computational linguistics goodness ::

...for I just received in the mail the Jan 19 2007 issue of Science that has the book review my professor and I co-authored. (They changed the title from what we had to something a bit more boring, but editors are tricksy like that.)

Hee!

...for my Uncles love with the Invader Zim love. Appearing today were the second and third volumes of the ever-quirky-and-disturbing-and-brilliant Zim. W00t!

I love the power of the amazon wish list. Hee.

[insert happy Zim dance here]

...I loooooove my workplace, and I am the ping pong queen for the day. w00t. Go, go, Gadget ping pong ass kickery!