Is there life beyond linguistics?

Scottish Country Dancing Groups in my area Durham/Chapel Hill SCD – Thursdays, 7:30-9:30pm Triangle Dance Studio, 2603 S. Miami Blvd, Durham, NC Raleigh (Cary) SCD – Mondays, 7:30-9:30pm Jo Moore's School of Scottish Dance, 1401G SE Maynard Rd, Cary, NC The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) The Strathspey Server – information about dances, tunes, and SCD groups around the world

Music Celtic music: Local sessions (Triangle area, North Carolina) Irish jam session information from ncfolk.net The Triangle Irish Sessions group at Yahoo! Groups The Swannanoa Gathering (arts workshops) Sources for Celtic sheet music on the web The International Shakuhachi Society Keep playing! – A list of community bands and orchestras around the USA and around the world

Japan – language and culture The city of Fukuoka: about the area; news and events Jim Breen's Japanese language and computing site Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia/University of Pittsburgh) Life and travel in Japan Travel information from JNTO My favorite travel tips (under construction) Japan-related reading list (under construction)

Upper Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks of New York Overview of the area Canoeing The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake

Some recent travel photos Thessaloniki, Greece (April 2004) Tar Heel Bus Tour around North Carolina (May 2004)

Amateur Radio (I'm N1ONR) List of amateur radio clubs in the Triangle area (North Carolina) Repeaters in North Carolina

Links to my checkered past Colchester High School, Colchester, VT Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Cornell Linguistics Cornell Wind Bands Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Kyushu U. Linguistics (Japanese only) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA UMass Linguistics

Other obsessions The weather, courtesy of Weather Underground Recipes! The Straits Cafe The Moosewood Restaurant