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awesome things i have done today
A) during our pre-reading discussion for a poem by René Philombe, one of my students brought up the good old "eskimos have 30000 words for snow!" thing, talking about how language "warps your brain*". I had a moment of LINGUIST FURY where I brainvomited about Sapir-Whorf and polysynthetic languages and the eurocentric (indo-euro-centric?) bias of early-1900s linguistic fieldwork.
...and then I looked up and my whole class was going o____O at me. WHOOPS. I took some deep breaths, and now I'm feeling better, but damn, I miss actually getting to study linguistics.
B) On the other hand, I looked ahead to the next chapter to start my lesson planning, and HOLY SHIT WE GET FUTUR PROCHE NEXT CHAPTER HECK YESSSSSSS. It combines the irregular verb aller with the infinitive of all the other verbs we know and gives us the FUTURE. How is that not awesome? I did a little dance when I saw the chapter heading, ngl, which is how I know that I am in fact on the right track with my life.
C) Current plan of attack in re: halloween party is to get cat ears from CVS on my way home, dress in black, staple a caption to my shirt and go as a lolcat. On the one hand, it's not very awesome; on the other hand, I'll settle for not actually being naked. Other frontrunners: cover myself in screenshots of porn and cats and go as the internet; wear leggings as pants and a disaffected sneer and go as "kids these days".
*his words, not mine.
...and then I looked up and my whole class was going o____O at me. WHOOPS. I took some deep breaths, and now I'm feeling better, but damn, I miss actually getting to study linguistics.
B) On the other hand, I looked ahead to the next chapter to start my lesson planning, and HOLY SHIT WE GET FUTUR PROCHE NEXT CHAPTER HECK YESSSSSSS. It combines the irregular verb aller with the infinitive of all the other verbs we know and gives us the FUTURE. How is that not awesome? I did a little dance when I saw the chapter heading, ngl, which is how I know that I am in fact on the right track with my life.
C) Current plan of attack in re: halloween party is to get cat ears from CVS on my way home, dress in black, staple a caption to my shirt and go as a lolcat. On the one hand, it's not very awesome; on the other hand, I'll settle for not actually being naked. Other frontrunners: cover myself in screenshots of porn and cats and go as the internet; wear leggings as pants and a disaffected sneer and go as "kids these days".
*his words, not mine.