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feeling: temporarily nice and warm
listening to: Utena - Ensuikei Zettairan Algebra
It is bloody COLD. I hate when it's this cold. I have to walk outside between classes and such, often for 10 minutes at a time, with the evil wind slamming my face and numbing me all over... *snarl* There are buses, nice and warm ones, but when it's this freakin' cold, there is no room in them whatsoever. You have to push and shove and fight the crowds just to get a spot in these buses, even if it's standing room only, which it usually is. Then when you reach your stop, you have to fight your way through the aisles to get the heck out. Also, the schedules are all screwed up when the passenger count is that insane, so I usually end up standing outside waiting for a ride for up to 10 minutes, in which time I could've freaking WALKED to where I was going. Then, after I've waited that long, the other people at the stop usually outfight me and get on first and take all the room, so I have to walk anyway. >_< Did I mention it was over 60 degrees one day this week and driving snow the next? I despise Ohio winters.
Linguistics really is pretty interesting. I learned in the past couple weeks why exactly it is that some people say stuff like 'hampster' instead of 'hamster'. Has to do with phonology, and the position of one's language apparatus while saying the M and S sounds back-to-back in a word such as hamster. You just automatically add that extra bilabial stop (P) in there. And believe it or not, I have spent many a time wondering just why the heck I kept hearing people say 'hampster'. Ah yes, a little part of me feels so... complete now. :P But it STILL drives me nuts when I see people spelling hamster with a P. It's HAMSTER! Say it with a P all you want, but PLEASE at least spell it right! >< It's not hard... I mean, does anyone you know spell 'strength' with a K instead of a G, even though many of us pronounce it with one? See, it's really not hard, people!
Sorry, little bizarre pet peeve coming out there. :P No offense to you hampster people. *cringe*
This brownie sitting on the desk next to me smells really good. I think I'll eat it now. Ohhh yeah.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 2/28/2002 01:20:00 PM
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