Good evening.
I woke up at 4 pm today. Looooove those weekends!
Went with the girlfriend for dinner and a flick, Punch-Drunk Love. A fine movie, we concurred, but oddly without a reason for existence, as far as we could make out. (no wiseass comments about how I phrased that :b )
Classes end this week (I think) and are soon followed by exams (yay)...
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I woke up at 4 pm today. Looooove those weekends!
Went with the girlfriend for dinner and a flick, Punch-Drunk Love. A fine movie, we concurred, but oddly without a reason for existence, as far as we could make out. (no wiseass comments about how I phrased that :b )
Classes end this week (I think) and are soon followed by exams (yay)...
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me:
oh yeah, I forgot to tell you... I might be coming out to toronto over christmas vaction... i've never been to canada... we're getting a cabin just outside of town... hope it's fun.
stendec:
Beats me, although having SG's present would no doubt help. Maybe TO members just aren't into it. In any case, I'd still like to get together and do something.
Good evening, it's Tuesday night, and I'm watching Jack Hanna's animal antics on Letterman... An unremarkable day, it was. I got a reply from the artist I'm trying to resign from, and it's apparent that he really thinks "we share the same values and needs," which is less than true, to say the very least. I _will_ resign, I will not be a slave anymore...
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stendec:
What about fish? I know they're not as cute, but they are kind of cool.
The York idea sounds good, but I don't know if that's enough time to pull people together. As for other ideas, I think that pretty much anything that is interesting as a group activity should be just fine.
The York idea sounds good, but I don't know if that's enough time to pull people together. As for other ideas, I think that pretty much anything that is interesting as a group activity should be just fine.
edea:
i've had yuffie my hedgehog for about a year and a half now. It took her only a few months to get used to me. she rarly puffs up anymore because shes so used to me.
she is the best hedgehog ever she is potty trained and even knows her own name!!
YUFFIE RULES!!
she is the best hedgehog ever she is potty trained and even knows her own name!!
YUFFIE RULES!!
Grrr, I hate it when the media misrepresent science... A news item today said that scientists are planning to create a new sort of life form artificially, and it will enable them to model the workings of life and do all sorts of nice things to help the world. What do I hear on the 6 o'clock news? "Scientists to create new life form. New...
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grooverider:
dude- awsome idea on the picture!
my question about the website was more along the lines of- what's your connection to the contents of the site. (if any) i don't mean to pry or anything, just curious.
i just noticed that in my former reply I referd to myself as an "idioit"- ?!? am i brilliant or really REALLY stupid?
G.
my question about the website was more along the lines of- what's your connection to the contents of the site. (if any) i don't mean to pry or anything, just curious.
i just noticed that in my former reply I referd to myself as an "idioit"- ?!? am i brilliant or really REALLY stupid?
G.
me:
Hey, we have the same crush!... okay okay we can share
Yah, so Hump Day is over. Cool. Did a bug show in the morning for a bunch of spoiled 3-5 year olds in an upper-crust daycare center. They loved the tarantula, though.
Went to an linguistics talk, which was pretty interesting. The refreshments were tasty. Took a 2 hour nap in a common room with nice comfy couches.
Girlfriend has moved out of hospital into...
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Went to an linguistics talk, which was pretty interesting. The refreshments were tasty. Took a 2 hour nap in a common room with nice comfy couches.
Girlfriend has moved out of hospital into...
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noirin:
your pic was cute. sorry for the positive minimal response. i am trying to learn time management and sleeping. it's a lost art.
noirin:
do you msn?
Ah, there's nothing like starting a paper and getting a few hundred words done (I'm such a college kid...). Starting can be the hardest part, don't you agree? I'm still a few stories short of what I need for my project, so if anyone cares to contribute...
Who am I kidding, I'm lonely. My girlfriend is moving out of hospital to a residence on Monday...
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Who am I kidding, I'm lonely. My girlfriend is moving out of hospital to a residence on Monday...
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uswer8024082082084:
I am sorry about your girlfriend, it must be very hard to be with someone going through all that stuff. But it is very good of you to stay with her and help her out. She will always love you, I'm sure.
noirin:
that properly sucks man. why is your lady in hospital? sorry if that's a bit intrusive but i'm assuming you're cool with it if you mention it...that's harsh though. i can imagine that must be lonely.
to cheer you up i will send you a choice selection of excepts from this my most recent photodiary! my scanner is busted so i'll have to borrow one or fix it but i'll get them to you asap! i dunno really how to upload them so i'll just be doing private viewings tee hee...
are you a latin fan also? i think latin is wondrous. canis est in via. dominus meus est partiallyblind. caecilius impluvium intrat. 'eheu' clamans. etc etc....some choice exerpts of a wasted education there as you can see!
don't feel shunned by your lady btw. the thing with family is that even when they are shoddy and treat you pretty badly, at least they owe that to you. with anyone else it can feel like an imposition, so if you need looking after it's easier to allow someone to do that out of obligation rather than as a favour. chin up! x
to cheer you up i will send you a choice selection of excepts from this my most recent photodiary! my scanner is busted so i'll have to borrow one or fix it but i'll get them to you asap! i dunno really how to upload them so i'll just be doing private viewings tee hee...
are you a latin fan also? i think latin is wondrous. canis est in via. dominus meus est partiallyblind. caecilius impluvium intrat. 'eheu' clamans. etc etc....some choice exerpts of a wasted education there as you can see!
don't feel shunned by your lady btw. the thing with family is that even when they are shoddy and treat you pretty badly, at least they owe that to you. with anyone else it can feel like an imposition, so if you need looking after it's easier to allow someone to do that out of obligation rather than as a favour. chin up! x
Aaaaahh! Help! Need Canadians 18-25 to tell me stories so I can finish my sociolinguistics project by Monday! If you're interested, please please please let me know. I don't want to have to make up data (not thatI would ever do that, of course... 
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I'll post an organism of the day soon as I start this paper...
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I'll post an organism of the day soon as I start this paper...
a35mmlife:
i was about to say...!!!
ive started forwarding your pics of the day to all my friends and family. they think I am so... odd... little do they know...
ive started forwarding your pics of the day to all my friends and family. they think I am so... odd... little do they know...
a35mmlife:
...and where in israel did you spend time?
Yay, Wednesday's over! I'm kind of sorry to see it go. Today, in a phonetics class, we were examining speech sounds in languages besides English. Needless to say, it's quite an interesting sight to see 100 linguistics students all practicing phonetics at once ("eeeeehhhhhh" "rrrrrrrrrr" "brbrbrbrbrbbrrbbrb" "iiiiiiihhhhyaaaa" "lhalhalhalhalhalhalha") Whoo, that was fun!
OK, as I'm listening to the news on TV now (I tend to...
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a35mmlife:
i like peta for that very reason. and i think i agree with many of their goals. i dont however support that comparison. bad taste.
that movie should be on my favorite list actually... 'bring out your dead...but im not dead yet *thund*'
that movie should be on my favorite list actually... 'bring out your dead...but im not dead yet *thund*'
noirin:
the volvox are really sweet, i might consider farming them to add to the list of my potential future occupations [dreaming about one day doing really cool job goes right along with the alternate reality thang...] i think they would be friendly and supportive and sing to me on special occasions.
i have studied the use of 'like' to the point where i'd call it a common planning device...i love phonetic script, i can write in phonetics better than in english! did you know that bilingual people use different parts of their brains to monolingual? and yknow the sapir-whorf paper on language and thought? well whenever i ask monolingual peeps what language they 'think' in, they kinda vaguely guess and often say english...but bilingual people who speak english as a second language almost always say english AND they answer really definitely and quick. i think that's really cool and weird. just thought you might be the one person who could appreciate that as a novelty hehe...
i have studied the use of 'like' to the point where i'd call it a common planning device...i love phonetic script, i can write in phonetics better than in english! did you know that bilingual people use different parts of their brains to monolingual? and yknow the sapir-whorf paper on language and thought? well whenever i ask monolingual peeps what language they 'think' in, they kinda vaguely guess and often say english...but bilingual people who speak english as a second language almost always say english AND they answer really definitely and quick. i think that's really cool and weird. just thought you might be the one person who could appreciate that as a novelty hehe...
Tuesday's gone by, and so has the sociolinguistics exam I was cramming for last night. It went well. Yay.
OK, here's something interesting. I read a linguistics paper about a historical controversy in Sweden over the use of "ni" vs. "du," which both mean "you" in English. Kinda similar to the tu/vous thing in French. Anyway, at one point, folks in Sweden were so polarized...
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OK, here's something interesting. I read a linguistics paper about a historical controversy in Sweden over the use of "ni" vs. "du," which both mean "you" in English. Kinda similar to the tu/vous thing in French. Anyway, at one point, folks in Sweden were so polarized...
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a35mmlife:
'blue....no, green. *aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh*'
the best thing about that film is what they are doing to the cats throughout the movie in the background...so subtle, so funny.
i took one sociolinguistics course... not for me. It was a Linguistics course about the socioeconomic affects of displaced poeples in urban centers (focusing on language isolation of course)... i think that was the most borring class i took through all my schooling...
the best thing about that film is what they are doing to the cats throughout the movie in the background...so subtle, so funny.
i took one sociolinguistics course... not for me. It was a Linguistics course about the socioeconomic affects of displaced poeples in urban centers (focusing on language isolation of course)... i think that was the most borring class i took through all my schooling...
rosalyn:
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you know... I can't remember the last time I had a reason to say it.
I'll go with... zee! Cause it keeps the rhyme going in the alphabet. We're supposed to say zed in Canada.. what's up with that, us backwards people..
you know... I can't remember the last time I had a reason to say it.
I'll go with... zee! Cause it keeps the rhyme going in the alphabet. We're supposed to say zed in Canada.. what's up with that, us backwards people..
Ah, the weekend. It was a balmy 14 degrees today (Celsius, of course... 'twould be around 57 F), warm enough to go out and walk around without a coat. A really pleasant surprise.
We saw "The Ring," which I thought was fairly disturbing but had a lot of loose ends that needed thinking about, and "Bowling for Columbine," which was bitterly funny and brutally informative....
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We saw "The Ring," which I thought was fairly disturbing but had a lot of loose ends that needed thinking about, and "Bowling for Columbine," which was bitterly funny and brutally informative....
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a35mmlife:
i love learning about the 242 legs, but come on. the crawling thing? thats creeping me out. *shudders* there so.... icky. and the excretions? *gag*
my pic is from halloween.
i was a chassid. I passed out gelt and dreidles all night. but the sideburns are real and still rockin... so is the israeli. this weekend has been rough as you know. but im a stonch supporter of the human race and believe in us enough that we may find an peaceful answere if we try hard enough. so i support, as do most kibbutznics, a peaceful coexistance with the arabs. i also believe that an arab grandmother has the same dreams for her grandchild that my grandmother has for me. i refuse to buy into the jerry springer, wwf, george bush, nsync bullshit. Peace is possible.
Yeah.
Hi.
my pic is from halloween.
i was a chassid. I passed out gelt and dreidles all night. but the sideburns are real and still rockin... so is the israeli. this weekend has been rough as you know. but im a stonch supporter of the human race and believe in us enough that we may find an peaceful answere if we try hard enough. so i support, as do most kibbutznics, a peaceful coexistance with the arabs. i also believe that an arab grandmother has the same dreams for her grandchild that my grandmother has for me. i refuse to buy into the jerry springer, wwf, george bush, nsync bullshit. Peace is possible.
Yeah.
Hi.
a35mmlife:
oooh. lets talk movies too. i bet we can talk movies.
bowling was good huh. i agree. about 8 minutes too long, but good. i like mr moore. one of the few auteur documentarians... next to ms penelope spheeris and mr. burns of course...im a member of the International Documentary Association.
bowling was good huh. i agree. about 8 minutes too long, but good. i like mr moore. one of the few auteur documentarians... next to ms penelope spheeris and mr. burns of course...im a member of the International Documentary Association.
Hellooo, November! As the wind blows harder and the rain falls colder, as the clouds shower forth snow and the streets turn a cold, murky gray, I begin to long for a nice sunny climate...
Had some yummy vegan puffed wheat chocolate bars that a friend says are all the rage in Saskatchewan, where eating grains other than wheat are frowned upon.
Ehhh.. School can...
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Had some yummy vegan puffed wheat chocolate bars that a friend says are all the rage in Saskatchewan, where eating grains other than wheat are frowned upon.
Ehhh.. School can...
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grooverider:
yo myco how- is you dawg...
man, that's a beutiful insect.
sometimes i think that it's sad how people descriminate attractive animals from less-attractive ones. i refer of-course to the common standards- most people would be charmed by a butterfly and disgusted by a moth, even though they're not that different. i'm sad to say that i can't count myself out of this crowd, yet...
i hear you about school- it can really suck sometimes. of course- i never went, so i just rely on movies like:"animal house" and "meatballs".
later...
G.
man, that's a beutiful insect.
sometimes i think that it's sad how people descriminate attractive animals from less-attractive ones. i refer of-course to the common standards- most people would be charmed by a butterfly and disgusted by a moth, even though they're not that different. i'm sad to say that i can't count myself out of this crowd, yet...
i hear you about school- it can really suck sometimes. of course- i never went, so i just rely on movies like:"animal house" and "meatballs".
later...
G.