Tonight I have seen syntax trees undergo unholy perversions of structure at the hands Intro Ling students. It is 5:00AM and I haven't even gotten to start my annotated bibliography for tomorrow and the contact lenses I got yesterday (pirouetting with glasses is a hazard, and without gives me a migraine within ten minutes) are rather off--they ( Read more... )

All dressed up (the tweed skirt some of you might remember as Beatrice's from Much Ado About Nothing freshman year--still my most prized article of clothing) and ready to go to a Phila Orchestra concert at the Kimmel center with G. A favorite performer and a favorite piece: Lang Lang and Shostakovitch's 5th symphony. & the tickets were free ( Read more... )

The night before the start of classes, I finally became confident that this year was going to work out. Maria and Megan met for the first time--and got along!--and the three of us sat sprawled out on the floor of Maria's and my suite, sipping red wine out of Ikea flower pots (still awaiting Maria's wine glasses from home), laughing and catching up ( Read more... )

I'm going to begin posting again, although this will mean enduring delighted mockery from a certain party. (Hi, G.) This is the last year of what they say are the best four years of my life and perhaps it will be nice (or at least amusingly embarrassing later) to have some written record of it.

P.S. I'm not a teenager anymore, as of 10:11 this morning. Yikes!

As if I need another reason to dislike him, Bush is now interfering with my travel plans. He's leaving on a plane out of Phila. Internat'l Airport 30 minutes before I do this evening, and WHYY has been warning that roads will be closed, including (probably) the Blue Route, to allow his entourage to pass, causing major delays all around the airport ( Read more... )

A few days ago, a received an email from my dear friend/former landlady Amanda, who's the sister of my lifelong uschooler friend and ex-boyfriend Nick. Nick is graduating from college next week and Amanda's email requested friends send along a "word present" for Nick to be collected and presented to him this weekend.

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If you're reading this, I probably just added you as a friend. Hi! In the past I never really bothered to seek out acquaintances on livejournal and I think this is why I eventually drifted off. The lonely sense of writing in a public forum but sorely lacking readers. This time, I resolve to be sociable ( Read more... )

I leave for France in two weeks. I have made no arrangements, David is in Moscow with no email access (according to Robbie Hart), I do not have recording equipment (and since I cannot reach David, it's not even certain that I'll have loans from the Ling department) . Perhaps this is why I'm polishing off the second bottle of white in Maria's room.

I am beyond agonizing over maiden posts.

Hello, world.