twincityhacker

Watching CNN coverage most of the day, when I was not at historical linguistics. I skipped syntax to go to a viewing party in the dorm lounge, as watching Obama get sworn in > syntax. I probably should have gone somewhere else as there were only six other people in the center-wide lounge. I cheered a little when noon rolled around, enjoyed "Air and Simple Gifts", disliked "Praise Song for the Dead", and raptly watched the speech. I'm also wondering what the significance of the big bible the Biden's had. I think it's the family Bible, but I'm not sure. Someone tried to tell me it was the Bible Lincon was sworn in on, but I and another woman shut him down.

I found nothing really objectionable with Rick Warren's speech, but since it takes blunt brimstone and fire talk to get me up in arms, this is not surprising. The Benediction was 1000% times better, except with the small problem the reverend had at the beginning with less than clear diction.

We talked about the speech in historical linguistics a bit, and the swearing in, and got geeky over Robert's limited set of prepositions ( to to is on the line of awkward and normal and one day "to" could be the only preposition ) and Obama's habit of not lengthening the final word in his sentences/phrases/paragraphs which is also pretty unique.

We also talked about the importance of face-to-face communication to get the real snitch in the sority/fraternity of science, as yesterday my professor gave a really talk about a experiment found in "The History of Communication" in an biology conference, where afterwords he was taken aside by one of the group and told that the researcher who published the experiment stole the data from his grad student and then falsified the data.

That, and take into account the information written in the margins of library books by the readers before you.

I've been working on hiragana for the last few hours. I know the alphabet, but I'm not able to write a big chunk of the syllabary. Quiz is tomorrow, and I hope it's easy. I'm considering stuffing it in for the night as I'm nursing a headache, as well.

I also can't believe that rail cargo service is touted in commercials as the transportation of the future, when it's just the way everything used to get shipped on.

PS: Also, there is not a single peanut butter cookie to be found on campus. *shakes fist at Bush Administration*