Days 1 and 2

I just set the schedule yesterday, and I am already rethinking some of it. I was going to present on vocabulary at the Midwest Slavic Conference, but it looks like I might be able to present on some of the verbs that I had been working on up until last week. I still haven't heard back from the conference organizers, so I'm not certain that that's what I will be doing.

What have I been doing?

Today I spent the morning putting my data into shape so that I could analyze it through the statistical and programming software R. But, since I haven't used it for about a year and a half, I need some time to remember how to use it!

One of my current projects is working through Gunnar Svane's book Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Slavic Loanwords in Albanian). Like my skills with R, my skills with German are not in full gear, so it is a bit of a project. Anyways, it seems to be a really valuable tool for my research. Since I might not be presenting on vocabulary in the next couple of weeks, I'll probably put it on hold once I finish the introduction (maybe tomorrow?).

My other project is working on Turkish with my friend Josh. He's off to Turkey soon, so we're trying to study every day. It's good to revisit Turkish, just one other language tool to shake the rust off. I am so lucky to be working with languages day in and day out!