10 Years After

The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

What a busy day I am having! I still have to rush to work to pick up my paycheck. Then I'll have to cash that and race to Sevierville to get my hair cut. Ugh! So much to do. I think I'll try to get my paycheck done instead of opening the English computer lab early.

It was freezing cold this morning. Today was the midterm for Introduction to Linguistics. I received an unexpected email from a student in the class asking me what she had missed Wednesday during the review. I quickly typed up my notes and emailed them to her. What seemed especially strange was the fact that she is also in my Dialectology class and I had no idea. Before class I stopped by the bookstore and picked up four bluebooks for the test. Turned out that three people needed to use them. That'll be my pay-it-forward for the month. :)

There was an in-class portion of the test and a take home portion. The in-class portion didn't seem especially hard. I think I aced it (*fingers crossed*).

The take home portion looks a bit more complicated. It's data analyis so it will take some time and effort. Still, I should be able to ace this portion as well.

There was an interesting exchange between myself and the professor prior to class. I was sitting outside his office waiting for the previous class to exit and was doing some last minute review. The professor told me that he was going to teach History of English in the Spring again (I took this under him last spring) and he asked me what I thought of the text we had used. I told him I liked it better than some of the other texts. We talked for several minutes about how various text compared. I was very flattered.

I would like to study linguistics at the graduate level. However, I am concerned that I am hampered by not being (fluently) multilingual. I'll have to broach this subject with the two linguistic professors here. Also, I need to ask Glen, one of the grad students in my Dialectology class, if I can borrow his class notes from the Philosophy of Language class.