I'm back in Toronto. Melissa's here visiting for a while, so we've been out and about, spending too much money. I'm 90% unpacked, and have discovered that the space under my bed, when properly utilized, more than makes up for the fact that I don't have a closet. Who would have thought?

School starts on Wednesday, and my paper is nowhere near done. My schedule this semester has the following bonus features:

- earliest class starts at 11:30
- latest class ends at 5:30
- Mondays off
- Tuesday/Thursday is in Complex II (all classes, and my job)
- Wednesday/Friday is in and around Ross (all classes, and my other job)

Let's hear it for sleeping in and not having to walk across campus billions of times! The class lineup this semester:

LING3800 Language and Mind: This course explores how the structures of human language reflect the architecture of the human mind. The techniques and results from a number of disciplines and perspectives (e.g. artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology) are considered.

LING4140 Grammatical Theories: This course will examine the metatheoretical issues and assumptions underlying the development of different linguistic theories. The foundations and formal framework of Government-Binding theory, the most recent version of Chomsky’s Extended Standard theory, will be introduced and later compared with a competing linguistic theory.

LING4230 Language Disorders: This course surveys a variety of language disorders, among them aphasia, delayed language development, dyslexia and language dissolution in old age. Specific disorders are discussed within a psycholinguistic framework. There is some discussion of basic strategies for therapy.

LING4400 Topics in Grammatical Change: This course deals with morphosyntactic change from a broadly generative perspective. It focuses on large-scale changes, changes resulting in dialectal variation, and changes in progress. Both language-internal and language-external mechanisms by which change takes place are considered.

LING4900 Independent Study – Advanced Topics in Discourse Analysis: It's an independent study. I get to play with Susan.

Did you notice that four out of five courses are 4th year Linguistics courses? Yeah, I'm hoping that I won't be pulling out my hair by mid-semester.

On a completely unrelated note, I think the Bay Centre for Birth Control is a great thing and I'm going to have to check it out sometime, especially if I ever decide to look into getting an IUD.