22. April 2008 by admin.

I’m lucky. I have a boyfriend and a best friend who is wonderful. His family is adorable, and actually likes me for some reason. And I have a great family that loves me at home. And I have a quite nice life going on for me. I am truly lucky.
I am coming home from spending the weekend in Tampa with Tom. I miss him already. I won’t be seeing him till like June 8… it’s long! I wish I could just take him everywhere I go! I miss him all the time when I’m not with him.
I am however excited that I will be going to Lebanon soon, and I will see everyone there. If you’re reading guys, I miss you
I am worried about Tom’s gramma, she broke her shoulder and had reconstructive surgery, she looked sooo tired when we went to see her… I hope she gets back up fast!
Oh, I found a Linguistics Forum a few days ago, it’s a pretty cool idea. I’m going to be writing in it often I think. I am pondering the idea of starting an irc server for linguists.
I read “a child called it” on the plane - it’s a very sad story… I feel like I should get involved to help somehow - I will get on it when I get to LA.
That’s all for today,
Sarah/Plexi/Semit.

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17. April 2008 by admin.

I just changed my mind today on my screening topics (again). I decided to screen in sematics and syntax again, that’s what I came for! I asked Hagit to be my advisor. She’s cool.  Her socks are funky too… which says something, I’m not sure what it says, but it says something.
We (Xiao, Shawn, and I) went to a Lebanese restaurant today, the food was good. I’m going to try to cater from there for the student workshop.

I need to write up a proposal for the paper for the Semantics class, but I’m too ‘down’ today thinking about my wadad, and life in general.. meh. I could use a break soon.

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14. April 2008 by admin.

Studying hard isn’t one of my particularly habitual activities… It is rather that I kinda-study-kinda-watch-TV-kinda-sleep when I’m studying. So this weekend I’ve been trying to exclusively study, and I’m suffering from feelings of inefficiency!

My plan for this week is to be done with Morphology and Semantics by Thursday, so that I can enjoy myself in Florida guilt-free.

Dilemma:
I want to take Philosophy of language, because it’s cool, and because it’s given by Nathan Salmon who’s visiting and might not be around to give it again since he doesn’t teach here. But I also want to screen in Fall and it’d be useful for me to take the screening course, which conflicts (in time) with the Philosophy of Language course that I want to take. What should I do?!

I still haven’t chosen an advisor! I must do that this week!

yalla back to reading,
Ciao!
Sarah

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13. April 2008 by admin.

Yesterday, my friend who likes food Xiao and I went to a Korean place at 12:30 am.
He ordered cold noodles, and I ordered grilled beef - We were both bloated till the morning!
The food:
   
Us:
 

This morning I had a slight back ache, but it went away after a bit. I came to the USC Linguistics showcase, it was fun, I met a couple of new people. The food was good as well. I’m glad I came because coming to the department motivated me to study.

I am still in the department, I didn’t accomplish much today, but it was fun, I’m going to finish the article I’m reading before I go home.

P.S. I have no idea why some pictures get a random blue frame on this blog its randomness is quite amusing

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10. April 2008 by admin.

So I finally got my driver liscence. I still hate the DMV and everyone closely or remotely affiliated with it, BUT if there’s one person I am willing to like among them, it’s the person who took my picture. He did me good.

I am going to FL on the 17th, to which I am looking forward.

I think I’ve found a topic of interest to me in semantics to do my first screening, the topic kind of goes with an advisor, so I think I also picked myself an advisor.

I have yet to find out how to ”normally” post a picture from my files on this blog. Have I mentioned before that I like doing things from scratch? If this was my own HTML I would just put in the picture, but since i’m using a fancy blog thingy, I have to actually think!

I also found a couple of places for my parents to stay this summer on the beach in Florida.. I think Tom is a bit worried about it more than he’s letting on to, but I’m sure he’ll like it - plus, he’s the one who made me convince them to come.

 I actually like this topic enough to read it after midnight, for the heck of it, isn’t this cool? okay, back to reading with me!

Ciao!

Sarah

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3. April 2008 by admin.

Tom reactivated my blog, because he’s the best

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I finished my taxes! all I need to do is mail them in! I am so happy about it!

I’m trying to book my April flights to Tampa, but Expedia is screwing up with my credit card address correspondance, who knows what’s up with them now! Delta (which I usually book with) doesn’t have any red-eyes in April and May, and I wanna go to Tampa dammit I wanna go! so I’m doing a US airways flight with stops.. meh

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