Today was just one of those days - a good study day, to be sure, but also with things crossing my bow that OH! I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT, TOO!!

Or, shorter and without the CAPS LOCK: "Shiney!"

Like a constructed script called Layaklan, with its origins in a work by author M. A. Foster. While I saw a very, teenie tiny image of a separate script, the article I've pointed to has only indications in Roman script.

Pooh, I say, pooh.

Someone also dropped a reference to a middle OLD-English poem called "The Wanderer", and after looking up a couple of things, I suddenly wondering what a siþ-motief is. Travel, journeying, but is that all?

God, I feel pig-ignorant sometimes. And with not enough time to correct that.

Pardon me, while I go poke my kid brother's email box - there's an article on the uses of Facebook (many thanks to the inimitable davidlevine who passed along the link). I think it'll amuse him. TTFN.

Oh, wait, just one more thing - I'm looking for a good expression in Dutch for "arranged marriage", but the answer I'm not looking for is "huwelijkspolitiek", I think. That has more to do with dynastic arrangements, but I'm trying to track down something for the more run-of-the-mill institution as practiced once upon a time in China, and still is in some other places. Mr Sweetie can't really come up with anything, and my guesses with the dictionaries aren't yielding much result, either.

Thanks for listening!