Posts, or lack thereof

So, it's been a while. I don't have a real post right now, but I just wanted to check in, say hello, and promise that a "real post" is coming soon. And I'll add that this morning I accidentally participated in a vaguely nationalistic school lecture on how Russian is a mighty language which should be respected, cultivated, and protected by all Russians (including - and this is the part that goaded the linguist in me - the ones who are currently busy speaking minority languages like Buryat that are frankly in a lot more danger of disappearing than Russian is...). But afterwards we got to go to the seashore, where I found some nice shells, so I consider myself about even on the day.