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I have internet! Because I couldn't sleep I decided to log on to the computer and check my internet connection. For the last couple of days, I've not been able to connect to the internet, and after calling the IT hotline twice it was guessed that there was someone getting my IP address.

So loging in at 4:30 AM totally netted me my own IP address! It is very sad how happy I am not having to go to a computer lab to check email. Yesterday I thought to cut out the number of times I ventured out, since it was snowy/slushy, and went to the computer lab in Wright.

When I came back to my room? I looked in the mirror and saw that my lips were a lovely shade of blue. I knew the place was frigid, but I didn't think it was THAT cold.

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You would think that a class with nine people would be easy to make a worksheet for. Can't put a note saying "Yes, he's that Jacob Grimm*" because I don't want to make a pop culture joke that the five grad students from East Asia may not get, but at the same time I don't want to put anything down anything that will completely confuse the non-linguistics in the room...

Which is stupid, because the whole worksheet is just on comparing English conjugation vs. Japanese conjugation. Most of the worksheet is "The only thing the two languages have in common is that the have the base form of past vs. non-past conjugation. All the other forms in Japanese ( that we learned in class, at least ) are created in English with the help of modal verbs."

*Jacob Grimm split Germanic verbs into two main categories: strong and weak. Strong verbs are ones that conjugation by an albut, aka changes in vowel ( ring - rang - rung ). Weak verbs are ones that change by affixation by dentals ( walk - walked - walked ). Most strong verbs are considered irregular, and are not productive anymore except in the cases of analogy ( swim - swam - swum ).

...swum is in the Firefox dictionary, and affixation is not. I feel betrayed! I also feel half staved so I'm going to get something to eat.