Why today has been uniformly awsome

[philena]

9:00: Field Methods
Yikes! I haven't had a chance to finish the reading for class. Hmm. It seems not to be a problem. C'mon, professor, are hyphens and three-letter name abbreviations really that important? Half the people don't even have middle names!

11: Section for Ling 100
Um. . . I still don't have a watch. Can someone lend me a watch? HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VOICED AND VOICELESS? IT'S THE THIRD WEEK OF CLASS ALREADY! GAH!!Oh dear; I seem to have forgotten the IPA symbol for a voiceless uvular fricative.

12:00:
Mmm, lunch!

12:30: Phonology
Whee! Syllables!

2:00: Agreement
Eek! The professor I'm TAing for is coming to give a guest lecture! I must impress him with my worthwhile contribution! *discuss discuss oh cool discuss French does this thing discuss does this count as one of Corbett's canonicality diagnostics discuss discuss--Oh, the professor I'm TAing for is about to give his guest lecture. He must have been sitting in that corner there.

5:00:
Mmm, burrito with Daniel!

6:30: Elicitation session with Quichua speaker
So that's how you say "I will scream"? Could you repeat that? Wait, that's a different form. Oh, they mean the same thing? Really? The extra three syllables of morphology don't make a difference? Okay.

7:00
Oh, hello, Field Methods professor. You seem to be wearing spandex biking shorts. What's going on with these different verb morphologies that mean the same thing? Oh, evidential markers and stuff? Things that are really hard to elicit a semantic difference for? Um, great!

Comments

[annabananaface.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! Your day sounds even more terrifying than mine usually do. With extra even more senseless words that have no meaning to me (there are a lot of such words in my day too, just usually with a sinking feeling that I ought to know what they mean). I hope that school and such are going well.

[babylon-poet.livejournal.com]

Yes, the biking gear was very unexpected. I wonder how one manages not to freeze to death.

I wish I had a lunch break on Tuesdays... kvetching has become one of my favorite words and activities.