It’s really rather hard to go to your advisor and admit that no, actually you haven’t done anything in a month.
In my defense, I needed the break. But . . . oh well. I’ll do it all now. That’s why I have a light semester this semester. Not that I’ve done anything at all this […]
In my syntax seminar the other day we were discussing grammaticalisation in French negation. Personne can mean either “someone” or “no one”, depending.
And V mentioned double negatives in some dialects of French. (Ne really barely counts anymore.)
I looked sort of surprised and said it was unacceptable. Everyone knows full well that you can only […]
I’m not sure what they’ve been doing until now, but suddenly there are mice again in the house. One, at least, which may or may not still be alive (Sam was sitting on it and growling at Matilda, and periodically walking around with it in his mouth and growling at Matilda, and then I took […]
I wonder if I should make a category “complaints about winter”.
I did it. I made it back. It was hard. Hard because I didn’t want to. Hard because it was cold and the drive is long and I am tired.
We are having new roommate problems. I am tired of those, too; I almost hope my […]
I’m going to go back tomorrow, really I am.
I don’t want to. I ever so much don’t want to. And I don’t know why. My research is — was? I’m not doing anything now — going fine. I keep thinking of leaving. I wonder if it’s because I’m worried I won’t measure up or rather […]
Can’t seem to import at the moment.
After I spent all that time formatting them. Oh well. Later. Still, I’m disappointed. I wanted to see if the rest of them worked.
I managed to get August’s up. Now I need to do July, September, October, November, December and January.
Alphabetical order’s a bitch, sometimes.
My (second) cousin is taking an introduction to linguistics course, of the applied kind. She asked me if I knew where she could get some of the basics of English grammar, since she grew up in Ontario and never learned it.
Things like, oh, parts of speech. I had done MadLibs, so my problem was […]
I was so impressed with myself, once, for posting regularly.
That’s great. Now I’m trying to get all my old posts together so I can import them and I get excited about the days I don’t post. Also, I prefer the posts with no comments.
It’s just not, somehow, worth the 2.50 for me to be a […]
From The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, via Kimberly Swygert: a question for the new citizenship test.
Arrange in order, smallest to largest: jumbo, giant, extra large.
I generally order the “middle” one, which works well.