me? popular?

Yep, apparently my blog is becoming popular :) I was just online with Aisha, my ex-flatmate, who said that she was searching for info on the Egyptian restaurant "meya meya" when a link to my blog came up. Days ago, there was also a hint to my blog on My Kingdom, another interesting blog to add to your bookmarks. And a couple of months ago, meeting Vlad Zegarac at the conference in Cumberland Lodge, he told me that someone who was searching for his email ended up reading about him on my blog :) Well, I guess some things are just too good to be unknown ;-)

Oh, and while we are on the subject of me :) Billy also mentioned on his blog today that we had, or actually that we were still going to have, a very sweet bite together today. I am glad he liked the collection of Ramadan and eid sweets. Who can resist the 'kahk' and the 'basbousa'? :) So I spent day 2 of the eid on campus today but I had a mini celebration with Billy.

So what else have I been doing on campus? Well, I was mostly playing with my corpus. It has great potential, although today I was starting to get this feeling of being overwhelmed with examples. It will certainly take some time and effort to get my working methodolgy organized. Oh, and expect that every now and then I will pass an example or two from the corpus your way. Here is one for now, for all those who don't know what linguistics is all about :) :

Two friends talking about their other colleague who's doing a PhD in linguistics (rings any bells?):

A: Oh, Laura's spelling is awful
A: Remind me to tell her that actually
A: So embarrassing with my supervisor
B: Why?
A: What bloody linguistics
A: She can't even spell
B: (laugh) That's not what linguistics is about
B: It's about talking not spelling

Mai