the suspense is, you know, killing me

So, back in early November I applied for an overseas summer fellowship that would take me to Europe for about 2 weeks. We should have been notifed in late January - still no word.

That can't be good - they've notified the winners but are waiting for acceptances to notify the losers, in case some losers can become winners by attrition? I really thought this one was a go. Sad.

In other news: a word many of my students didn't know on today's quiz: "facilitate." I sometimes forget that, in general, they aren't readers. (Yet this is the class with all the Latin and French and German language training - unlike the usual section, which is, yawn, a semester or two of Spanish. I remember signing up for high school courses in 8th grade - I chose Spanish because I thought it was more relevant to daily life (even then) and my English teacher (a bit of a literary snob) talked me out of it because there was "so much great literature to read in French.")