Update - April 24

It's been a pretty hairy couple weeks. I'll try to keep it brief.

On the personal front, after a lot of issues with headaches, fatigue, anxiety, etc. I got bloodwork and an EKG done. I've changed medication several times this year.

I just found out yesterday that my iron levels were at 5. A typical range for a male is considerably higher than that. There were some other abnormalities, so I saw the doctor today, started iron supplements, and will be doing a bunch more tests next week once I finish my term papers.

Current Courses:

Phonologie 

March 23 - Annotated Biblio on Michif ***done****

April 13 - Second presentation on Michif's phonological inventor[ies/y]  ***done***

April 30 - Final paper on Michif Phonology

Arguments for and against the notion of two distinct phonological inventories (Cree and French)
Bit of an issue here. Nicole Rosen co-wrote a terrific and succinct book released in late January that pretty convincingly says there isn't two.
So I'm working on the front rounded vowels of French to Michif to see how they're realized.
I initially started on back round (French has o and u, whereas Cree just has u), but found Nicole had also already done that too.

Syntaxe 

March 21 - Co-teach the lecture on clitics with the professor  ***done***

March 21 - Travail pratique 2 ***done***

April 30 - Final paper on clitics in Ciociaro
I changed this to specifically post-verbal object and subject clitics, and have found a good amount of examples.

First term papers still to complete:

They're all in. Had a gross computer error that coincided with a change to our school's email that meant Jeff didn't receive his paper.
I didn't follow up, and assumed he had, sent my computer to get repaired, and didn't get back until Friday.
Found out he hadn't received it, and did my best to get it rewritten by yesterday. It
isn't pretty. But all the papers are now (confirmed) in.

RAship

Didn't have much luck learning to code and train the model, so I have focussed on helping the work-study students finish the transcriptions.
They're all almost done.
I'll have more time to talk with people who know how forced aligners work in May, so I'll train the model after all the transcriptions are done.

Train forced aligner in corpus of Kap, Timmins French

OTHER

In my work with the Italian-Canadian Archives Project (ICAP), I've been developing and creating an archive hosted by Lambton County Libraries. The website is still very much a work-in-progress, but we applied for a Documenting the Heritage of Canada Program (DHCP) Grant to help get me some money to learn to do all the web design and just do the oodles of work, and we got really lucky.
We were awarded 14,000$, of which 10-ish will go to me as a sort of summer job to pay for interviews, transcribing, travelling back and forth, etc. The goal is to have the website up-and-running by December to have a big event at the Italian Hall in Sarnia.

NWAV 47 - I'm not sure what I'll submit for the conference, but I'm thinking either the Drake research, because it is a vaguely new way of analyzing variation.