Gee, it's been ages since I've posted anything ( Read more... )

So, I'm almost done with my first semester as a Master's student. Now I only have two papers to write - 2 have already been handed in. I'm kinda stumped with them, to be honest. Especially the one for 'Oral discourse analysis', not least for the fact that the data I'm going to analyze is *not*, in fact, oral; it's from a virtual community. I was ( Read more... )

Today we got the final results for the Masters entrance exam. I got first place in the final classification in the Applied Linguistics department. My mom, who took the exam for the Doctorate Program (also in Applied Linguistics) got 3rd place. So my mom and I might be classmates. That might be a bit weird ( Read more... )

I've applied for the Applied Linguistics Masters program at my university with a project about fanfiction and literacy ( Read more... )

Season 5 of Doctor Who is now going to its 12th episode and I'm still not convinced. While some eps were quite good and entertaining, I'm still not sold on Matt Smith. I don't think he's as good an actor as DT or CE. He seems rather flat.

( Spoilers )

The World Cup is here! I can hardly believe it's been 4 years... Man, where does time go ( Read more... )

So I've seen episodes 1 and 2 of the new series, now with Matt Smith as the Doctor.

Well, I'm still not totally sold on him, though I quite like Amy as a companion.

( Spoilery Thoughts )

Yesterday I went to a party for my great-aunt's 100th birthday. One hundred years, can you believe that? She was born in 1910. It's astonishing to think of all the things she lived through, both historically and personally speaking. And she's quite well, health-wise. I mean, she needs a cane to walk and thick glasses to read, but, well, she is 100 ( Read more... )

My first week on the job went well. The kids in my class are really rather cute, and so far not troublesome at all. I'm still nervous at having to plan interesting classes for an entire semester while at the same time actually getting them to learn something. I can tell it's going to exhausting, but maybe not as bad as I thought ( Read more... )

The last couple of weeks have had a lot of ups and downs. I got a job, which is great, but there have been some losses as well ( Read more... )