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Outside of the Davis Center on the UVM campus, there are three flagpoles. The first flagpole always has the American flag; the second flagpole always has the Vermont flag. But the third flagpole changes all the time: on Earth Day (and also just randomly) there is a flag with a picture of the earth on it; around Diwali, they put up the Indian national flag; near Chinese New Year, it's a Chinese flag. Today, it was the rainbow flag, which gets put up for national events (like Coming Out Week, for example) and for smaller, UVM-only things - this time, it's an all-day multiple-speaker event, "Faithful Narratives", which I'm fairly certain was organized by UVM's LGBTQA Services office.

Sometimes, I really, really love this school.

Ahem. Anyway: Babel passage! \o/ It is going to be so nice to have a place like this to store this stuff, especially one that's so taggable. Sometimes I drift off into daydreams where my music is taggable, and I can listen to it by picking whichever tag I feel like hearing, instead of having to construct different playlists for everything. trufax.

( Babel passage. Not important to anybody but me! )

( Cut for grammatical and phonetic chatter, also not important to anybody but me. )

And so on. Glossing is so much fun, but, man, what an enormous time sink. ^^ I always forget just how much of one it is until I'm doing it.

So, a check mark for that. I think I'll hold off on Psalm 23 until I've finished the other one, too. Now I just need to shower and get some writing done, and today will actually have been good for something. :D

(I feel so sad tagging this as Conlang A. I really need to give this a proper, in-language name.)

Marta Gómez!

Not only do I love this school, I love my hall, and the Honors College in general; it's not perfect, but they make such an effort to expand our horizons. Example A being this afternoon, when we had Marta Gómez sitting in the living room on the ground floor, singing, for a full hour, before she went to her actual concert this evening. Beautiful stuff; I am very, very fond of her voice, and the songs were all gorgeous. She made a particular point of mentioning that she writes and sings her songs in the style that she does because she thinks it's important to perpetuate the unique musical traditions of South America, instead of writing more Euro-American-style rock or pop. (Not that she was disdainful of Euro-American music; I'm just not describing what she said accurately.)

Bottom line: it was AWESOME. ♥♥♥♥♥!