In a bizarre twist of linguistic luck, I found out today that I had some unexpected work that I had to take care of before tomorrow. I decided this past week to do Sidiky a favor and stay out at the Josserand/Hopkins residence to give him a temporary reprieve from housesitting for a few days. I came out to the house on Friday evening after work and brought all my materials with me, thinking that I would get a lot of work on the phonology project done during the day on Saturday and then on Sunday morning before our scheduled meeting. At around 11:30am on Saturday, there was an unexpected knock on the door as Sidiky walked into the house. I was just started to get my materials together to do work. As we were chitchatting, Sidiky asked about our plan for tomorrow, something that I hadn't really thought much about. I had thought that starting analysis on the third tale was what was on the agenda. Sidiky had another goal in mind. He asked if I had completed posting the argument structure analysis on the internet. Uhh....I really didn't realize that that was on my list of things to do, so my answer was obviously "no". I decided that for the better good of the overall project, it would be in my best interest to put my personal project aside (again) and spend the afternoon working on the second tale. And thus, that's what I did. Luckily, the marathon of the second season of Project Runway was on Bravo all day long to keep me company. I sat with my laptop and the second tale and spent about five hours coding the argument structure of the second tale into HTML. Although I felt like a zombie when I finished, the important part was that I finished. I called Sidiky to let him know that I was done and that he could look at it before tomorrow and to give him the opportunity to look it over and make comments. I thankfully finished that work before it got too late, so I'll have a chance to get some work done on my project before the meeting tomorrow. On my list of things to do is go back through and re-listen to the elicitation tape and concentrate on what is happening to the initial and final parts of each word. We'll see if that happens...