okay

[fox]

i'm done.  i'll finish this term, because i've already arranged tutorials, and it would be tacky not to show up -- but i've pretty firmly decided not to keep going with this next fall.  i mean, what's the point, frankly?  i can geek out about language and languages from wherever i am -- i don't need to be here to do it, and what are the odds i'll actually need a PhD for whatever i wind up doing next anyway?  historically, i haven't had a single job i wasn't preposterously overqualified for.  i don't have any reason to believe that won't change.

so.  that's that.