The café where Brad and I had breakfast
Barri Gòtic
Day two of Barcelona started out a little bit more successfully than our first night in town. We had breakfast at a very European little outdoor café. They had a neat prix fixe menu - a ham and cheese sandwich (sorry Kosher peeps) and café […]
As promised, here is the first of several posts about what Brad and I did while we were in Europe. Barcelona started off with a bang…
Adventure #1: Imagine you’ve just been on planes and in airports for over 15 hours. You’re tired, grouchy, and have only eaten awful airplane/airport food. You’re […]
Notre Dame makes me pensive
I survived Europe!
I’m posting this from my (very nice) room at Oxford (Trinity College), where I’ll be for the next six weeks. Things are kind of hectic moving in, so I don’t have time for a full update, but while you’re waiting, you can see the photos I took on […]
(Sorry about the title of this post - I couldn’t help it)
You’ll note that this post is categorized under “Adventures” - that’s because I’m about to take off (agh! I can’t stop the puns!) on what’s bound to be my greatest adventure yet.
I leave this Thursday for 10 days in Barcelona, Paris, and London, […]
Wanted: a good language podcast that doesn’t just talk from a prescriptivist perspective.
I listen to two language programs - The Word Nerds (”A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do) and A Way With Words (”A humorous and instructional joyride through the English language”). They’re both pretty funny, […]
On 4 July, I’m going to be in the country from which the United States declared its independence.
I think I should have a 4th of July party just for the irony.
We’ve had Earthlink DSL at home for several years. When we first got it, things were great. We were just coming off of a 56k dialup connection, and DSL felt like heaven. We found out that you could (*omg*) watch movies via the internet! Who woulda thunk it?!
We always had connection […]
Yes, I know, two posts in a row demanding that you go consume some prescribed media, but too bad.
As per Danny’s (implied) suggestion (he’s not steered me wrong yet), I picked up a copy of Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man. The book is a “police procedural” (think CSI, but cool), set in the XXIVth […]
It took me almost an hour to read three pages of this linguistics paper. Not because it was impossible, mind you, but because I was having a good time. I would see something I didn’t understand, look it up in another book, and then in that book find something interesting - and then […]
I may or may not have watched the entire archives of Ze Frank’s The Show last night…
I have a thesis topic.
I never thought I’d say those words, but they’re right there, staring me in the face. I guess this means I’m really doing this whole “life” thing.
The basic idea of the thesis can be summed up in the following sample sentences. (For my non-linguist friends, “(*xyz)” means that “xyz” […]
If I was a superhero, I’d be Super Awkward.
Just got back to Brandeis from vacation (I’m very sleepy from the flight). But:
So, I sit myself down in seat 23D on my JetBlue flight from Long Beach, get myself all comfortable, put on my headphones, etc. After I’m nice and situated, I turn my head to look at my neighbor… and […]
I spent over 9 hours on travel websites yesterday.
I still don’t have a hotel.
Does it really have to be this hard to print long documents double-sided?
I’m used to having access to a nice laser printer to print readings and such. It does double sided printing on the quick.
I’m home for break now, far, far away from my beloved laser printer, and I was reminded just how awful […]
Some people think I’m quiet. But really I’m just saving up for when I have something important to say.
[A note to those who don’t think I’m quiet: that just means I’m comfortable around you :)]
I’m very relaxed right now. And it’s not because I’m on break. A few things have changed recently, and at least one warrants sharing:
My term as Secretary of the Student Union is over. I’ve held that position since Danny resigned a year and a half ago. While the end of a […]
Junior/Senior Formal was last night. I don’t have much substantive to say about it, but go check out the photos.
Numbers for Brandeis’ housing lottery were released today. My number? 2245 (very bad).
Luckily, two friends got (exceptionally) good numbers, meaning that EMOTOWN LIVES!
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This weekend I was hurt by something someone said (or more accurately, the way they said it). I started into my usual passive-agressive scheming, and that really didn’t help.
After thinking about ways to get back at this person, I realized that the best thing I could do would be to just stand up and […]