Guess there’s a different rule about Halloween here. I always thought that if the place didn’t have anything Halloweenie (pumpkins, pumpkin cutouts, fake spider webs) it meant there was no candy, and to leave the poor people alone.
Especially since we have “trick-or-treating at the mall” at every single mall. Um. Not my plan.
My favourite […]
As many people don’t know, there aren’t all that many Eskimo (choose any appropriate language to fill in here) words for snow. But today we learned that Eskimo does have lots of different words for fear: there’s fear of the future, fear for family’s safety . . . all different roots.
Someone in my class […]
Please note, before we start, that I think syntax is primarily about word order. I’m just explaining what some people think.
The point in syntax, more or less, is that some word orders are okay, and some aren’t. (Even in so-called free word order languages, they’re never entirely free.) In English declaratives, for instance, it has […]
A bad night, tonight (listening to Leonard Cohen on top of this? Not so wise). I am considering going away next weekend (after Halloween). I just need a vaguely inexpensive hotel somewhere. I was thikning the Catskills, but I don’t want to be spending 70 plus taxes a night. Maybe I just can’t find the […]
No construction of any sort — power tools or hammers — until 8 in the morning. Certainly not at 6:30.
This rule better go into effect as soon as I call my landlords (at 9, I figure, though I’m tempted as hell to call them now — hello, we’re trying to LIVE here, and paying quite […]
I had a relatively decent meeting today, and a possible topic for a paper in one of my courses. It won’t be a particularly brilliant paper, but she’s fine with that — it’s all about getting an idea of where and how to go about finding an appropriately sized topic and write about it in […]
It’s an adverb and a flower!
We played two games, which lasted about 90 minutes each. There were 5 of us for a 4 person game (max, but you can play with 3), so I paired up with the other new player. We did poorly, but I have a much better grasp of the strategy now.
It’s pretty easy to pick up, […]
I made lovely Kahlua brownies. They’re rather more Kahlua than brownie, but that’s also fine.
Melt together and cool:
1/2 c butter
3 oz unsweetened chocolate
Beat together:
1 1/2c sugar
3 eggs
To sugar & eggs, add butter-chocolate mixture, as well as:
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 t baking powder
1/3 c Kahlua (yes, really)
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.
The recipe said to […]
Sometimes, good luck just finds you. Often not, of course. But sometimes. I need to take the joy while I can.
I have been having trouble finding people who speak the language I’ve been primarily concentrating on. In other words, it’s not spoken anywhere in Europe or Asia. Which means that I need to beg my […]