Suboptimist
I’m not quite a pessimist. I’m more of a suboptimist.

Portable Apps is pretty amazing, by the way. I need to find a portable LaTeX distribution on my flash drive so I can edit my TeX documents anywhere. That’d be pretty win.

I am trying to figure out what I am going to do if I am rejected from the U’s MA program. Options range from duck farming to professional freemasonry, to the priesthood, to suicide, and every imagineable alternative in between. The other thing I need to do is find a place to live. I don’t think I can stand living at home much longer. Thus, I hope I to get awarded a TAship or an RAship, so for once, the University of Utah will pay me to go to school.

I’m thinking of taking a couple road trips this summer. While I would love to go to Syria or Jordan for the summer; I don’t think I can afford it. I have options. I’ve thought of heading out the San Diego to visit a brother out there. I will likely take a trip to College Station to visit a certain member of the Node. Basically, I want to use the interim between my graduating college and my potential initiation into graduate studies to do something refreshing.

I want to get into comics. I’ve always intended to get into it in greater depth than I have in the past, but I’ve never gotten around to it. I suspect another member of the node could help me out. Then again, I know he likes superhero comics. Perhaps I will ask him.

You Are a Cadbury Creme Egg

You’re the type that stole little brother’s easter basket so that you could have MORE CANDY!

I really hate the University of Utah testing center right now. I am applying to the University of Utah linguistcs MA program, you see, and my application can’t be processed until they have GRE scores. Naturally, the testing center promptly forgot where to send them. Blast. I was angry, but somehow I doubt the chair, who I get along with, will let me get screwed over a clerical error. We shall see.

Friday I led a discussion of laboratory phonology. It quickly became a discussion of what linguistic competence is. There were several ideas of if and how laboratory should investigate it. For example, should we disregard it entirely, since it can’t be directly measured? Should we redefine competence to include aspects of linguistic performance? Should we maybe redefine performance to get a better idea of what competence is? I don’t know what to think for sure. Good points were brought up though.

Check the docs for additions.

I know, I suck at blogging.

Right now, I am at a crossroads of sorts. I was rejected (so far) from 4/6 graduate programs I applied to. Most upsetting was the rejection from my top choice, University of Arizona. With 4/6 rejections so far, I doubt the other two will be selection letters. With that in mind, I decided to try to apply the University of Utah’s MA program at the urging of a professor of mine who I ran a study idea by. I wouldn’t even necessarily finish the degree, but finish the study and apply again next year. The other option was to stay on as an undergrad. I decided against this. As a grad student, I can get an RAship or a TAship and make some money while I do it. Updates to follow.