moving around a lot, iiiiii don't know what i remember

so that's a line from a talking heads song, at least as i remember it. there's actually a term for people who misremember lines of songs such that they come to laminate their own distorted interpretations onto the actual lines, but i don't remember it. anyhow, i have once again relocated, and it's a bit disorienting, all this fight-or-flight. i'm having a bit of the melancholy that comes with sudden uprooting and air travel, the discombobulation of having to recollect your parts around you and see things in that "new" light. i'm sure that this will fade soon, and i'll retreat once again into the inner world that's served me so well these past, oh, twenty-six years. all right - two fellowships, one conference paper, one presentation (replete with animated powerpoint tricks that would make a certain TCD very proud) later, i'm here in the town of spires and boob-looking domes, ordering my containers from the LOC (i'm loco for the loc - this is my new nerdkademic slogan) and getting ready to bury myself up to the elbows in the birthing of this golden calf. gold from straw! or rather, old papers well-preserved. more later - i can feel that this is going to be a very fertile working and thinking period for me. this is, in fact, what i needed after the hot and sticky information-gathering orgy that was panama. despite the double-fisted (and ham-fisted) election/bailout circus raging outside my window, i can tell that DC in the fall will allow for some cool and clear-eyed reflection for this particular overheated radiator.

note: the term that i was thinking of was "mondegreen." also, its close kin "soramimi" proves to be equally cool.