Archery practice at the Viking fest.

Ari was the raddest part of the duckling parade today. 

She is a hoopy frood who knows where her towel is.

 

Most unexpected thing about working in a linguistics department: the number of calls I get from people who spoke in tongues/had a vision involving some word or phrase and now want someone to translate it.

It is not super common (a few calls a year) but happens regularly enough that I can now usually spot those calls in the first few sentences.

There's also the people who have "Indian artifacts" that they want translated, but I usually try to at least check into those a bit, because hey, you never know.

 

Why must you come at me so hard, Randall Munroe?