Suboptimist

Gripes II: The Gripening.

Tomorrow I will likely become a serious academic blog again. Today, however, I have some observations to make.

Hidden costs of education suck.

Seriously: parking passes, calculators, prints and copies. I hate my life already.

WebCT is pure, unadulterated Satan.

Still, everyone uses it.

I hate describing linguistics to non-linguists.

It’s really hard. How do I describe a broad discipline in five sentences? Even worse, when I tell people I am a linguistics major, the inevitable follow-up is, “How many languages do you speak?” I experience similar frustration with telling people I am an Arabic major. “Do you want to work for the CIA?”

I make really weird purchases at Smith’s Marketplace.

The last purchase I made there was a mallet, a pipe wrench, and a toothbrush. Tonight, I purchased 100 lbs of top soil and 5 bottles of Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine shampoo. You know, for my marvelous head of hair.