ah yes.  the woes of living at home.  with home-cooked meals, late nights and sleeping in, friends to hang out with, music to play...

it's not really all that rosy.  i've got a report to finish, a job to get, a cd to record, a record company to build, a website to maintain, a gospel choir and church to find.

  if you've never written an academic report on surveying a remote indo-european language, be assured that it's no walk in the park (more rocky and windswept, albeit beautiful).  I was done with my journal entries months ago, but now in order to make it somewhat conclusive and show that i did my research, i'm looking up obscure references to this language that were made 30 years ago (or more), mostly by Russian and German ethnographers/linguists (neither language one that I know).  and unfortunately i can't find any of it on the internet - just the references.  what's more, since i'm no longer a student i can't use interlibrary loan (although i did discover that the public library has an emasculated version).

but at least i'm learning somewhat interesting things while surfing the internet.  such as...

did you know that the speed of light could be slowing down exponentially?: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39733

and a slightly different take: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_problem