Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Anagrams

Inspired by watching "Word Wars" this weekend (a documentary on Scrabble tournaments), and by the fact that sitting in linguistics lecture is the most pointless experience of my life, I attempted to discover a clever anagram of my name. I was delighted to discover that
EMILY ANN SOMERS
rearranges quite nicely into
ROSES IN MY NAME
That is, until I realized I had forgotten the letter L. Then all that was left was the dismal
LOSERS IN MY NAME
And oh, I was sad.

But anyway, this weekend was nice. Went home. Got nothing done, as usual, because I can't study in my house. But I did watch a lot of movies. "Word Wars" which was fantastic ("No fucking way 'bemeant' is a word!") and "The Motorcycle Diaries" which has given my dad worse roadtrip fever than usual.

I threw together a rewrite of my Keats paper for textual analysis yesterday afternoon. It was simply awful, but at least it's done. My grade in that class will be a complete surprise to me.

Went to my first physical therapy session yesterday afternoon. My therapist was very nice, with a familiar jaw and a voice I'm sure I've heard before somewhere. The best part was none of it was nearly as painful as I imagined it to be. Just lots of stretching and ice. Of course, I had to go back to the doctor this morning to get my finger pricked and hemoglobin checked. A Snoopy bandaid evened it out, however.

I'm off to class in the rain, but:
1. New Gilmore Girls tonight!
2. 87 days

2 Comments:

At 8:26 AM, Blogger Joe - Wednesday's Child said...

Don't you think it's getting pretty close to the time to get over this linguistics thing? It sounds like the same old story - an uninspired teacher making you read crap. Buy a fresh roll of Charmin, wipe your brain thoroughly, and read anything by Noam Chomsky. Then look for "Moral Politics" by George Lakoff - a linguist and a cognitive scientist. It's all about applied linguistics - you know, the answer to that troublesome question, "Yeah, but how am I ever going to actually use this stuff in real life!?"

 
At 1:33 PM, Blogger Emilia said...

I really don't mean to sounds so whiny about my linguistics class. I just get disappointed with classes with so much potential but where I learn nothing. It's not that I dislike linguistics itself--I really liked "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker. But clearly sociolinguistics was the wrong path to take.

 

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