Dative with Infinitive

I just saw a subject header on the cogling list: Dative with Infinitive.

Jeez, I really need a dative with an infinitve now.

How's this for a paper title?

“The Selfadjoint Extensions of a Nonnegative Operator of Defect One in Krein Space.”

Now why can't I come up with titles like that? I thought "Some Semantic and Cognitive Aspects of Desire" was pretty good, but it's got nothing on that.

"Defect One" would also be a great name for a band.

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I very rarely take days off sick, especially since the new policy requires that we get sick notes (we used to be allowed up to five days of absence without written proof of decrepitude). Generally speaking, I find it less trouble to go and teach than to go to the doctor. However, today I phoned in sick because I not only felt terrible, whenever I sneezed, gunk came out of my nose, which is not something you want happening in class. I've been known to spray saliva when I get particulalry enthusiastic in class, but mucus would be too much.

The funny thing is that when I do phone in sick, I always feel better immediately. Nothing like a complete recovery (I still have to turn my head away from the keyboard when I feel a sneeze coming on) but certainly much more perky than I was when I got up. The only problem is that at some point today I have to trudge through the snow to the health centre, thus making myself iller. The stupid thing is that other than getting a sick note, I have absolutely no reason to see a doctor. Decades of medical research have failed to produce a cure for the common cold; in fact, they closed down a research centre in Britain because they decided they would never find a cure.