10 Years After

Vanishing

David Denby talks about the chairs when he was first at Columbia and then when he went back again in his Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Indestructible Writers of the Western World. There hasn't been much change in the seating conditions here. Just as I was leaving the first time the English department incorporated long tables with cushioned chairs that could be moved around. Most of the other buildings on campus I've been too still only have the two-in-one, desk and chair combined thinggies. Most of the changes that this campus has undergone have minor - more sidewalks and a new Library. Oh, and there's that $100,000, or whatever, plan to upgrade the lights in the student center. Yeah, we can't afford to keep professors but we need more light in a buiding made out of concrete. Wasn't that the point of building it out of concrete with no outside windows (except for the inaccessible courtyard walled by glass)?

My CWL instructor is out again today. After opening the lab early for class I took a few minutes to write up some scanner instructions since neither of the the two that were printed worked. Now I'm just waiting for a lab worker to show up so that I can split. Then I'll go to work and watch the two video I checked out on linguistics/languages: Modern Philosophy: the philosophy of language and The Story of English Series: (4) The Guid Scots Tongue. The second is a video on the influence of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic on English and discusses Appalchian English. I'm rather skeptical about the effects claimed by my dialectology text, so this should be interesting.