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I've been enjoying a little time off. That is not to say I'm not working; after all, I've got a dissertation to write. But, the fact that I don't have anywhere to be for a little while is kinda refreshing.

This weekend I started the Soames book (I'm working both from his two volume history of analytic philosophy and his recent critique of two-dimensional semantics, the latter of which is a dense book which argues against the very thing that I am arguing).

If anyone has any ideas about the relation between Russellian definite descriptions as denoting terms and its place in the reference theory of meaning, let me know.

I got a luke-warm but encouraging response to my terribly edited and incomplete drafts of chapters. Just keep doing what I'm doing, Steve told me. And so I shall.

I'm thinking about going to Chicago this summer. I've got an airline credit I need to use before it expires, and I want to take another shot at that bar-crawl up Clark. Last time, I barely made it to Wrigley from the Belmont L-stop (I'm pretty sure it was that Old Style that got me--a rancid malt liquor that, for some reason that seems to elude me, is very popular in the Chicagoland area). Plus it will be nice to hang out with jason, Nikki and Thane.

Moose has been crashing, since his truck bit the big one. For the past week and a half he's been using my car to get to and from work, and today we should be picking up his new ride. That means I'll be a bit more mobile than I have been. Although: I generally enjoy the inside more than the outside, especially during the balmy Florida summers.

Beach with N. and her brother this weekend. I've been beaching it alot, perhaps more in the past few weeks than I have cumulatively over my six years in Florida. The past few days, she and I have been talking about feelings and labels and whatnot. I am really very happy right now. And whether or not N. is solely the cause, she definately deserves a good part of the credit.

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