27. April 2009 by admin.

I had a small disagreement with C. - it’s weird that since we had that argument it’s been like a relief… I guess hanging otu with her was a downer… though that’s not a nice thing to say… she’s not terrible… anywhoo… doesn’t matter much

My plans are to spend June in Tampa… which is making me feel guilty towards my parents… I’m also spending the rest of May in Los Angeles, because I want to go to the California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics program’s meeting.

I have a presentation on Tuesday and I’m not ready for it… I rescheduled my meeting with Fang-Ying so I can use the time tomorrow to read for Audrey’s presentation… I’m feeling a bit stressed over this whole presentation thing… the worst punishment would be that I’d have to present my topic for Hagit’s half and then I’d have to write a paper about this underspecified stuff… meh… I need more structure still… I need to learn to come up with specific stuff on my own…

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13. April 2009 by admin.

I’m screening tomorrow, and I am scared shitless…

They’re going to ask me simple questions that I’ll be too stupid to answer, and they will make me wish the earth would open up and swallow me… I’m so scared… I can’t believe I was excited about this yesterday…

Oh, and I added my advisor on Facebook… now I can’t procrastinate on facebook right before a deadline… she’ll see it… heh… that’s fine though, she’s cool.

Tom and I had a mini argument today… we’re fine though, we talked for hours after it… we’re always fine that’s how I know we belong together.

I could really use talking to Tom right now, but it’s like 3 am there and the poor guy is asleep… so I won’t call… I like picking on him and pretending I want to sleep with a woman without him knowing it’s so much fun hehe

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8. April 2009 by admin.

You’d have to come from a place where the car breaks down sometimes, the power goes off sometimes, the roads are blocked sometimes, and the airport closes sometimes, to still find life beautiful when the money runs out sometimes.

Arifi quoted me on this on facebook, so I thought it’s cool enough to put on my blog

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5. April 2009 by admin.

Well, I ran out of money right after the screening… so I’m not going to have my “grand finale” hairdo, or the crazy shopping spree. So here’s the fun things I’ve been doing or plan on doing more of:
1- Reading for the semantics seminar
2- Finishing the work Barry recommended I do on my paper
3- Reading my advisor’s book in the right order (chapter 1 before 5)
4- Thinking of a topic for the next screening
5- Talking more to my fiancé and my family
6- Finding an apartment in Berkeley
7- Finding an apartment for next year

I want my life to go back to revolving around a project… I’d have less time to worry and I’d be more productive.

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4. April 2009 by admin.

I got engaged!!!

I fell back in love with Syntax

I lost my apartment

I attended a linguistics workshop (for the first time)

I wrote a paper

I had fun!!

I love this semester. I wish the rest of my life at USC is like this. I hope my advisor continues to pressure me.

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2. April 2009 by admin.

yeah I totally stole that from Lina’s email to me

I am much better now that I sent my paper… i had a feeling of “done”-ness for a little while today… I’ve been in bed ALL DAY!
Tomorrow, I’ll get back to work…

I hope they like my paper… it’s been what I breath, eat, and dream around for four months!

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