random thoughts

Since I haven't posted anything in a while I guess I will just tell you maybe some random things that happened this week/will be happening soon/cool stuff.

- I am currently working on a project for my Psycholinguistics course on Working Memory.

- The lovely Christine Lyons died my hair darker on the 12th and I LOVE it! Maybe I will actually fit in with my sisters now.

- Today I figured out the length of my vocal tract for an extra credit assignment in Phonetics. I estimated it to be 31.1 cm long. If you want to know the approximate length of YOUR vocal tract then come on over! I would be happy to oblige.

- The lovely Christine Lyons mentioned above will soon be moving in with Breanne and me!!!! I am sooooo excited about this!

- The moonlight run is THIS weekend! And I'm excited to spend time with the fam in Raytown.

-People are really upset about this daylight savings thing...it actually makes me happy because now it's sunnier longer :)

- I learned today that 'this' and 'that' can only be used in certain contexts.
Imagine you are explaining a situation to an audience and you say either sentence 1. or 2.
1. I was talking to my friend and suddenly this guy comes out of nowhere...
This is a perfectly acceptable sentence in English.
2. # I was talking to my friend and suddenly that guy comes out of nowhere...
This does not make sense in English. One would ask, "What guy?"
(# - semantic anomaly...meaning semantically this sentence doesn't make sense but syntactically it does)
The only way 2. would make semantic sense is if you were pointing to 'that' guy. Otherwise, people will question whether you are from around here.

This linguistics jargon probably didn't make a whole lot of sense to you, so I will tell you that there is an intro course to linguistics offered this spring at the UofC! If you take it, you and I can pretend we are really smart and talk linguistics. Plus also you'll know what I'm talking about.

-I have a job starting in May :D

- I will be taking the intro course to Speech Pathology in the spring! YAY

- On Sunday Breanne and Marshie made dinner..and since my plans for dinner fell through, they invited me to join them and it was SOOOOoooo good! GANKS GUYS!

That is all. I hope you learned something today ;)