colours race: disappointment
tcd got swept.
damn.
College (as some ucd fans were calling it) won boys' and girls' senior and novice races. i mean, ouch.
did get a couple decent photos.
now: 2000 more words before the end of the weekend! 2000 perfect words. and i got invited to the colours afterparty in temple bar tonight and would love to go. Depends how much I get done.
my room is freezing! it was too hot last week, so I turned off the heat and it took like four days to get to an optimal temperature... but then it kept falling. Sigh. I cranked it at like 3 and brought it down a bit an hour ago hoping to jump-start the heat but catch it before it overheated it all. why can't we just set the thing to keep the room at one temperature? Actually, I'm guessing TCD turned down the heat because the winter term is now over- so even though temperatures haven't changed, the heating bills have.
yesterday was supposed to be super productive...but then hamentaschen with Assya turned into talking with Assya's friend Jen, and Rossa and Jonathan (hereon referred to as JDog because Rossa says he hates it), then enchiladas with JDog, then more paper work, talking to Clay, going to the kitchen for a glass of water and encountering SIMON <3 and talking to him for a long while, then writing until 3:40 and getting to 1985 words. I figured that ending on my birthyear was a sign and went to bed. Goal was to get the other 2000 today, but I'd be happy with just a thousand and take tomorrow to do the other thousand. And then this mofo has got to be finished. Also then I will see Diarmaid.
OH AND ALSO OMG:
I came up with a theory why it is I can't stand people saying "highly" to mean "very much" in certain contexts (i.e. "highly amusing," "highly doubt," "highly entertaining")
It's because IT DOESN'T FIT WITH ANY METAPHORS
(metaphors, in brief: a conceptual domain is our mental space that encompasses everything we think about one certain concept (say, "consciousness"), and metaphors are created by viewing one domain through the lens of the other, focusing on their similarities. the name for the compared OBJECT is target, the name for the compared CONCEPT is source. thus the formula TARGET IS SOURCE. Take for example AWAKE IS UP. You wake up, you fall asleep, you sink into a coma, you're an early riser. We look at being awake or asleep through the similarities of awakeness/asleepness to up and down orientations.
Capisci? Good.
So, for "highly amusing"- there is no FUNNY IS UP metaphor. There are not conceptual mappings of any of these neo-highly-isms to any space that we have stored as ______ IS UP. At least, I think that's why. That means, in theory, I should find it okay to use "highly" with any "up" metaphors like health, awakeness, or the unknown, but not with anything not mapped with "up" like wet/dry. You're never, y'know, dry as the sky, or soaked to the ground, or vice versa.
nope. good theory but I've just proven myself wrong. The metaphor UNKNOWN IS UP, KNOWN IS DOWN is well-known. Things like "up in the air" for uncertainty are perfectly acceptable. Doubt refers to the unknown. Therefore to "highly doubt" something should fit into my conceptual structure. But it doesn't! Where did this come from?
Guess I'm just messed up. Anyway, I have to get to work on the exciting 2/3 of the paper, the perfection of whose image in my mind has of yet intimidated me from starting.
damn.
College (as some ucd fans were calling it) won boys' and girls' senior and novice races. i mean, ouch.
did get a couple decent photos.
now: 2000 more words before the end of the weekend! 2000 perfect words. and i got invited to the colours afterparty in temple bar tonight and would love to go. Depends how much I get done.
my room is freezing! it was too hot last week, so I turned off the heat and it took like four days to get to an optimal temperature... but then it kept falling. Sigh. I cranked it at like 3 and brought it down a bit an hour ago hoping to jump-start the heat but catch it before it overheated it all. why can't we just set the thing to keep the room at one temperature? Actually, I'm guessing TCD turned down the heat because the winter term is now over- so even though temperatures haven't changed, the heating bills have.
yesterday was supposed to be super productive...but then hamentaschen with Assya turned into talking with Assya's friend Jen, and Rossa and Jonathan (hereon referred to as JDog because Rossa says he hates it), then enchiladas with JDog, then more paper work, talking to Clay, going to the kitchen for a glass of water and encountering SIMON <3 and talking to him for a long while, then writing until 3:40 and getting to 1985 words. I figured that ending on my birthyear was a sign and went to bed. Goal was to get the other 2000 today, but I'd be happy with just a thousand and take tomorrow to do the other thousand. And then this mofo has got to be finished. Also then I will see Diarmaid.
OH AND ALSO OMG:
I came up with a theory why it is I can't stand people saying "highly" to mean "very much" in certain contexts (i.e. "highly amusing," "highly doubt," "highly entertaining")
It's because IT DOESN'T FIT WITH ANY METAPHORS
(metaphors, in brief: a conceptual domain is our mental space that encompasses everything we think about one certain concept (say, "consciousness"), and metaphors are created by viewing one domain through the lens of the other, focusing on their similarities. the name for the compared OBJECT is target, the name for the compared CONCEPT is source. thus the formula TARGET IS SOURCE. Take for example AWAKE IS UP. You wake up, you fall asleep, you sink into a coma, you're an early riser. We look at being awake or asleep through the similarities of awakeness/asleepness to up and down orientations.
Capisci? Good.
So, for "highly amusing"- there is no FUNNY IS UP metaphor. There are not conceptual mappings of any of these neo-highly-isms to any space that we have stored as ______ IS UP. At least, I think that's why. That means, in theory, I should find it okay to use "highly" with any "up" metaphors like health, awakeness, or the unknown, but not with anything not mapped with "up" like wet/dry. You're never, y'know, dry as the sky, or soaked to the ground, or vice versa.
nope. good theory but I've just proven myself wrong. The metaphor UNKNOWN IS UP, KNOWN IS DOWN is well-known. Things like "up in the air" for uncertainty are perfectly acceptable. Doubt refers to the unknown. Therefore to "highly doubt" something should fit into my conceptual structure. But it doesn't! Where did this come from?
Guess I'm just messed up. Anyway, I have to get to work on the exciting 2/3 of the paper, the perfection of whose image in my mind has of yet intimidated me from starting.