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Penult

Laurie — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:38:58 +0000

Today: two papers finished, turned in. 20 phonology finals graded.

Tomorrow: neuro quiz, grading. celebration?

Tonight: hopefully sleeping well, not having any kind of panic in the night. i’m really tired of feeling like an ape is sitting on my sternum.

Cliff diving

Laurie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:36:51 +0000

Tuckered out, that’s what I am.

Went home tonight after dinner with Lewis and his madre, though we were supposed to go to the high school jazz band concert. I just came home and vegged out, and watched some TV, and generally chilled out. I’ll profess to doing some linguistics reading in the middle of watching a documentary on Prince Charles, but that’s life!

Spent the afternoon TAing and talking about dirty words in my sections (our reading this week includes euphemism and taboo) and it sort of creeped me out. I think maybe I shouldn’t have gone into that topic with them, but in all three of my sections the kids were very engaged and hopefully we had a fruitful discussion about hurtful words and turns of phrase. I think it’s just scary to swear in class, especially when we’re talking racial epithets. I guess we’ll see about that one.

Anyway… I think it’s an early-to-bed sort of night. I’ve got a date with an awful lot of essays to grade tomorrow. Woot.

I Never Had It So Well

Laurie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:14:46 +0000

Can’t manage any more than a good bad list tonight. I’m tired, frustrated, nervous, resigned, excited, aprehensive, defeated, and at the moment a bit taciturn. Anyway:

The Good

got the laundry done
got my sewing machine delivered
finished chapter one of the LIN 1 reading
had a nice walk & talk this evening

The Bad

see above list of tumultuous mood swings
couldn’t figure out how to thread sewing machine
something happened to Boo outside today (something peed on his neck? maybe?) and he’s been sad all day
Lewis is maybe getting the flu
failed to make dinner, or pumpkin bread, both of which I had big plans for
spent an unjustifiable amount of time futzing with new email programs trying to get something to check my two addresses non-buggily
additionally: something in my wordpress is fucking up, so I can’t even post this blog.

Tomorrow = first day of classes. Happily, I’m not nearly as nervous as I could be about this. I know most of the 1st years now, and I already know and like the professor. We’ve been doing orientations all week, so I already know where the building is and all that, and I feel a bit like an “old hand” around the department. I even have my “own” (read: shared with 6 other TAs) office. Also, I only have one class tomorrow, and one class Friday, which seems like a nice small load. Now to go to bed so I can get up at an appropriately early hour.

Protected: “A Quick Chat”

Laurie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:28:19 +0000