Two Shoolies and a ‘Potamus (or, no luck yet)…

An excursus (for those who are in need of a definitive—though not exhaustive—lexical word grouping on “shooley”):

Singular: Shooley

Plural: Shoolies

Pregnancy: Shooley-making

Labor Pains: Shooley-ripples

Labor: Mount Veshoolius (for the morphological paradigms of the word “shooley,” see appendix a)

Baby: Shoolipotamus (pl. shoolipotami)

Any good thing: Shoolirrific

(Feel free to come up with your own.)

Well, I [Ben] am here in Thailand, and patiently awaiting the arrival of Regan Elise (that is, our shoolipotamus). We are staying at the Juniper Tree, which is a phenomenal resort, until we move into the Dwangtawn Hotel for our ELI conference next week. In the mean time: we are walking each day and swimming about in the pool hoping for shooley-ripples, but no luck as of yet. Good news though, the hospital has internet access, so as soon as we go in for Mount Veshoolius we will turn on Skype and make ourselves available (well, as available as one can be in that situation). We are also working on getting a webcam, so that we can pipe our little-wiggly shoolipotamus onto the world-wide-web (no, you cannot watch the Mount Veshoolius). If you have any questions or comments please refer them to one or both of our email addresses.

Have a great day,

Benjamin John and Andrea Vukovich Peters