i've been meaning to write about interesting talks i've been to, specifically
- ingressive speech
- gene doubling, bird songs, and human language
- epidemics

but the last two weeks have been way too busy. i spent the entire weekend on tibetan homework (except for lunch for grandma's birthday).

relatively unimportantly, i discovered that someone named ashley is using my picture of Monkey in Hong Kong as their myspace background picture. maybe it should irk me that there's no credit given...