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Oct. 31st, 2003 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI've been pretty damn productive today. There are, of course, still things I should have done and didn't, but my apartment is clean for my family coming tomorrow, my Semiotics exam has had a sizable chunk of itself done, milk has been bought, and the French coffee hour has been gone to. (That counts as fun, though, so I don't think it's really productive, although it does get me used to speaking French again.)
The list of things I should have done and didn't:
Read about equivalence enough to change Theory paper
Read about aphasia enough to develop thesis for Semiotics paper
Find article on machine translation for Theory class on Tuesday
Buy a couple of gallons of bottled water
The bottled water is for next weekend, when the powers that be will be messing around with the water system between Kent and Ravenna, and they're advising us to boil all water for consumption for Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week. I suppose I could just bottle some water now, but I'll probably forget, and I just took the recycling out so I don't have any empty milk cartons. I will say that my parents picked the right weekend to come visit me, though. I wonder how hotels deal with having to boil their water?
It's gorgeous out again today. I went out in bare feet to take out the trash and get the mail. The mail was all trash too, of course. None of it had my name on it. Yesterday I got what feels like a book from the American Heart Association, addressed to somebody else. This is getting ridiculous.
Speaking of ridiculous, in class last night we were translating jokes. If anybody wants me to post them here (in English), let me know. Some of them are old, and some of them are amusing, and a couple are both.
All right, back to the role of the unconscious in the acquisition of language. Heck of a way to spend Halloween night, isn't it?
The list of things I should have done and didn't:
Read about equivalence enough to change Theory paper
Read about aphasia enough to develop thesis for Semiotics paper
Find article on machine translation for Theory class on Tuesday
Buy a couple of gallons of bottled water
The bottled water is for next weekend, when the powers that be will be messing around with the water system between Kent and Ravenna, and they're advising us to boil all water for consumption for Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week. I suppose I could just bottle some water now, but I'll probably forget, and I just took the recycling out so I don't have any empty milk cartons. I will say that my parents picked the right weekend to come visit me, though. I wonder how hotels deal with having to boil their water?
It's gorgeous out again today. I went out in bare feet to take out the trash and get the mail. The mail was all trash too, of course. None of it had my name on it. Yesterday I got what feels like a book from the American Heart Association, addressed to somebody else. This is getting ridiculous.
Speaking of ridiculous, in class last night we were translating jokes. If anybody wants me to post them here (in English), let me know. Some of them are old, and some of them are amusing, and a couple are both.
All right, back to the role of the unconscious in the acquisition of language. Heck of a way to spend Halloween night, isn't it?
