Friday, December 23, 2005

hilarious

In a Past Life...
You Were: A Brave Astrologer.
Where You Lived: Mexico.
How You Died: The Plague.
Who Were You In a Past Life?

posted by siobhan @ 1:44 AM 3 comments

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

I heart Bono

Oh Bono, you have gotten me through so many bad experiences of my life. Like, oh, 1998-2003. Do come back, let's open a few Diet Cokes and ruminate.

posted by siobhan @ 8:08 PM 5 comments

dear phonetics professor, i love you, but...

I be booking my plane ticket to Kiev now. (I am told our village was not far from Kiev. Maybe I can get a donkey ride there or something.) I am very excited about my new life in the Ukraine. I will be happy to be with other people like me, with large heads and high tolerances. So long, American friends. Tell my professors goodbye for me; I am no longer of their world.

(Btw, I will go far in the Ukraine with my TWO Ukrainian utterances:
varenyky = pyrogies
Hto te lyupish? = Who do you like?)

posted by siobhan @ 5:15 PM 1 comments

Thursday, December 08, 2005

why do i fail? (i can say it because i really do)

The events of today have brought clarity to my mind and have made me realize a very important thing. I have realized that I am not cut out for this academic world; I have denied my roots for too long. I come from a long line of Ukrainian gooseherders, and to these roots I must return. I suppose I'm just a simple girl at heart. Hello, village. Hello, house without electricity. Hello, making crafts for money on the side. We're going to be great friends.

posted by siobhan @ 12:51 PM 7 comments

Monday, December 05, 2005

Symbols

All of my ling peeps will agree:

How much glee do you get when you insert an IPA symbol correctly into your paper, especially the really tricky ones, like the alveolo-palatal fricatives? Aren't they beautiful? I just love looking at the perfect little symbols and rejoicing in the beauty of fonts.

Hee hee..........nerd.

posted by siobhan @ 4:12 AM 5 comments

Saturday, December 03, 2005

my jolly friends upstairs

Gaa! The people that live directly above me have been vacuuming the same spot in their carpet alllllll day. I think they started at like 3 pm, and in 10-minute bursts they furiously vacuum their carpet in the room that is located directly above my head. Earlier today, after one of such bursts, they decided to hammer something into a wall? But they were apparently unsuccessful, because that went on for a long time too. And I think they were deciding on different places to put their stupid picture, because banging noises were coming at me from all sides of the room. It was almost as fun as the time I started hallucinating, thinking my room was possessed by the devil.

posted by siobhan @ 9:45 PM 0 comments

new laptop!

I'm getting a new laptop! I'm getting a new laptop! I won't have to put up with the shenanigans of my computer anymore...

My little baby computer is getting old-she is 3.5 years old-and she is starting to crash whenever I open certain programs, and then the mouse won't work, and sometimes she just doesn't want to start at all. I was going to try to make her push it out for six more months...but then Klinton found an amazing Dell laptop with every kind of warranty protection I (a clutzy person) could ever need for four years...at a shockingly low price! I was sold. I will be buying it online in a few hours! I didn't think I would be this excited because as much as she frustrates me, I love my little baby computer. When she starts up she lights up with blue lights around the buttons...it is so cute. But it will be fun to play with a new one, and set it all up according to my specifications (Alex would appreciate this). And it will only be a semester old when I start my thesis. This brings much calm to my mind. Sooo excited...

posted by siobhan @ 6:02 PM 2 comments

Friday, December 02, 2005

Things that suck, vol. 3

It's time again for a list of things that suck. It's like a Christmas list in that for Christmas, I would like all such things to cease to exist.

1. Annoying girls that stand in the doorway of an establishment that I am exiting and who do not budge to allow me an inch to squeak by them. They simply continue their cheerleadery discussion.
2. This is an obvious point, but I am annoyed with how professors, even though they experienced what I am currently experiencing now, fail to understand that as hard as their class is, I have 3 others JUST LIKE IT! And yet their deadlines are still iron-clad.
3. Deadlines. I must research the etymology of this most unpleasant word form. I believe that deadlines should, in practice, be more like guidelines. Stuff happens! Cars break down! People get kidney infections (and ear infections)! People have nervous breakdowns! I am lucky to have my lovely professors Dutoit and Sanyal that have been understanding when shit happened to me, but they are not all like this...
4. Rent increases! My rent just increased! What the hell?
5. Creepy thirty year-old men that hit on girls my age.
6. Tyra Banks. I don't even know where to start! My perception of her has always been neutral...I thought she was pretty, that was about it...then I saw a clip of her eponymous talk show, where she put on a fat suit and was crying about how horribly she was treated in it...to a crowd of overweight women...? Keeping this in mind, and being forewarned of her antics by my roommate, I caught a bit of "America's Next Top Model", and was disgusted. She introduced the panel of judges as if she was an old hand in the industry...and she was introducing Twiggy, who reached higher realms of popularity than Tyra before she was even born. And she introduces her as "Miiiiiiiiiiss Twiggy." And apparently she is using the show as a platform for her new single. I'm tired of these models that try to become everything. None of us get to try a new job every four months! Pick a job!
7. Jeans manufacturers that cut their jeans superlow, then make them available in sizes 24-30. NO ONE measures 24 inches around their hips, damn it! Who are you making these for?
8. The fact that I probably shouldn't drink as much Diet Coke as I do.
9. They let me out of school so late that I can't even get in the Christmas spirit until Christmas is over. When I go home after finals I remain in a catatonic state for at least 4 days.
10. I can't make breathy-voiced stops to save my life. God bless you, Prathna, for trying. She patiently repeats syllables over and over again until I sort of begin to make the correct sound. Sort of.

These are all the things that I can think of right now that suck. There is one good thing, though, a light at the end of my tunnel. It is my new favorite thing: Trident Strawberry-Lime gum! It is amazing! It brings me much joy in my world of stress.

posted by siobhan @ 9:36 PM 2 comments