I have several posts to write up about my turn at the NYU Mind and Language symposium last week. But first one relatively unfortunate story from the end of the trip. On the drive back I stopped at the Citgo gas station in Liberty. I made the bad mistake of filling up the tank. This was a mistake insofar as I got, as my mechanic later put it, a little bit of gas and a lot of something else. Probably water. So my poor car tried to run on impure gas for a while. And while this worked a little, it didn’t work a lot. I managed to nurse the car to Vestal, where it currently is at the Honda dealers getting the bad gas drained out, at least one new fuel injector put in, and new gas put in. I hope to get the car back, at not too great an expense, in the next couple of days. Not good times. Never using that gas station again…

On better news, “The Cat Empire”:http://www.myspace.com/thecatempire are touring the US and Europe. Hopefully a few people reading this will have seen them play on the west coast last week. They are in the Midwest this week, then Boston and New York over the weekend and into next week. The link takes you to a MySpace page where you can hear several of their songs, and they’re a really fun band to see live, and if you can get tickets to see them in your neck of the woods, I’d highly recommend doing so.