1. I'm listening to Disney songs in various languages I vaguely know, and Quebecoise - when it's a feminine adjective, I can hear it less clearly. The "se" insead of the "x." Dunno how to type in IPA/too lazy to anyway. The France French I can hear clearly. The French - is prettier, IMO, too, but. It's nifty ( Read more... )

I swear to god, if I see one more complaint in the constant continuum of complaints about filling page limits or getting close to them or this shiz ( Read more... )

( after the bombs subside, we'll go dancing: thoughts about academic decisions )

I got an [almost-confirmed now-quite-probable] research assistant appointment with a linguistics and Chinese studies professor who is reconstructing Old Chinese with a French colleague. Do you know how cool Old Chinese is? It is so cool. I will talk more about it when I, um, know a bit more than I do now. And have more time. And also have replied ( Read more... )

Fifty-six degrees yesterday - it rained at 3 am not this past night but the night before - fifty-two now, and raining; this is Michigan in February, which is crazy. It's warmer here than in the northwest. (I know it rained at 3 am because I was up till six. Yesterday afternoon I'd had 8.5 hours of sleep in the preceding forty-eight hours. I don't ( Read more... )

I still haven't told my Inauguration stories properly - once I tell them, then I will know how to - tell them. (It does make sense really.) And so I will do, with photos and with video, later ( Read more... )

Basically, the Inauguration thing is through my university - it's through MUNDO, which is a sort of reshalls "cultural experience" type organization; there were random pickings from the first 300 short-answer apps from people who live in University Housing turned in, and from there they chose fifty people with an eye to whom would...best ' ( Read more... )

1. Research precedes posts of more significance and interest. However, speaking of significance: Read this if you haven't heard about the Avatar movie casting, though, and here, about what you can do2. Chinese is - I am almost baffled entirely, right now, by its awesomeness. I kept telling people at the beginning of the semester that I loved it, ( Read more... )

I've had a crazy day, including hilarity and worrying about people and brilliant a capella concert and a rummage sale (proceeds to the lit magazine for which I am layout editor) involving...actually nvm, and pizza twice over sort of and nifty families (aw :/) and thinking stuff and having a fair amount of fun once less worried about people than I ( Read more... )

( random shiz )