Enjoying a big ol' bowl o' Pho. 

I am finishing up some notes for tonight's lecture. It always strikes me as funny that I teach the students (among other things) that they should limit their teaching to small amounts of 'TEACHER TALK' in a fifty minute period - but I do it in the context of a three and a half hour lecture!!

The new course I am starting focuses on Applied Linguistics - so it draws on my undergrad and grad work. I sometimes worry that I may try to push too much info into the time frame, but it has been a long time since I have had a chance to get into lexical decomposition, functional vs inflectional morphology and the like (it just doesn't come up in everyday conversation as much as you would expect or hope it to).