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[wombat]

Today I'm gonna be so desperate to wring a story out of this bad idea I've been assigned, I'm going to ask real estate agents about ghosts. Oh dear.

[theinevitable]

A paper that was going to be due thursday got pushed back to tuesday. So of course, instead of working on the other huge paper I have due thursday, I fucked around all day. The rest of this week, and all of next week, are going to blow.

Also: I really need to do laundry, and my girlfriend's parents are going to be in town this weekend.

She is trying to convince me no hijinks will ensue if I sleep at her house while her parents are in town, but that is so obviously untrue.

[AugustWest]

I think we've all wanted to say something like this at some point.  Beautiful.

[jaydub]

I think we've all wanted to say something like this at some point.  Beautiful.

weeping in bliss

[jay-ell]

...find a poll on Mothering.com's forums indicating that my recent article was the most popular piece in the March/April issue by a fair margin.

I will celebrate later, when I have received and deposited my check, thanks.

[AugustWest]

...find a poll on Mothering.com's forums indicating that my recent article was the most popular piece in the March/April issue by a fair margin.

I will celebrate later, when I have received and deposited my check, thanks.

Hooray for you!!!

[wombat]

I will celebrate later, when I have received and deposited my check, thanks.

Word. You can't eat popularity.

One of the last stories I wrote for the AP has basically been stolen by blogs all over the world. The subject of the story is thrilled - she is all "cool, they are writing about me." All I can think of is that I hope someday I'll do something that popular under a contractual arrangement that actually gets me money for it. Worst of all, because the AP is a bunch of 19-century idiots, my story is disappearing from the Web now, leaving behind all the stories of the people who read my piece and stole and rewrote the idea.... sigh.

[theinevitable]

oh my god, it is almost 80 degrees out, and short skirts and flouncy dresses and short shorts are in full effect.

there is only one thing I want to do with my day, and it does not involve writing this huge-ass paper I need to write for tomorrow.

hint: flouncy dress, picnic, cold beer, sunshine.

Maybe I would even wear shorts, like some kind of wierdo who dresses differently depending on the weather.

[Carlos del Vaca]

hint: flouncy dress, picnic, cold beer, sunshine.

Maybe I would even wear shorts, like some kind of wierdo who dresses differently depending on the weather.

Dude, I think you'd look much more like a weirdo wearing the flouncy dress.  But, you know, whatever mows your lawn.

[theinevitable]

also: yes, it does seem like a trap.

today, I did my first ever ethnographic interview. I really enjoyed it. Listening to the recording, my voice is a lot lower than I realized.
Also, I say "like" every other word. Oops.

[jaydub]

Listening to the recording, my voice is a lot lower than I realized.
Also, I say "like" every other word. Oops.

Huh.  Mine's higher than I thought.  I don't particularly like the way I sound to other people.  Fortunately they don't seem to mind.

[theinevitable]

Also, based on listening to recordings of my radio show my freshman year, my voice has gotten deeper/better.

Something about my voice is... distinctive? I need to listen more to say exactly what it is.

I also noticed that, in fact, I do pronounce certain words really weirdly. I have been told this before, but it's hard to hear when the words are coming out of my own mouth.

"Also," for instance, is like "auwlso." No one else in my family does this, people in Charlotte do not do this, I do not know what this is. I say a very exaggerated AH sound in Horrible, as well.



Who are these people who believe things on the internet on April Fool's day? Come on.

[Choop]

inev who was your favorite dj before you got into being a dj and do you talk like him (it's been known to happen)

[theinevitable]

I used to kind of do a weird Ira Glass tone, but that stopped. I have no idea if I talk like someone now.
I don't really listen to radio, other than on my station.

Although I thought about him today, listening to my interview, because I realized that it is kind of hard to interview someone without sounding stupid. At least, in my case, because I am not good at phrasing questions, and end up rambling on trying to explain what I mean.

This is, potentially, one of the last times I will get to be in my favorite situation:
someone complains to me about the paper we have due tomorrow, and says something like, I only have 5 pages.
And I say, I have not started it yet.
That was 9 hours ago, and I still have nothing. I hate this damn class. Barf-a-roni.

Just did the math and figured out that if I turn in this paper draft a day late, it will only mean 1 point taken off of my final grade for the class, whereas if I turn in an abominable paper it will definitely result in more points off. Do I care enough about this? No. Goodnight.

[wombat]

...let's just assume that I was wrong. They include that kind of stuff so they can drop them into the chapter review questions and see if you've been reading or scanning.

Geeze-Louise!

OK, I don't get it. If you can get the answers to the real questions right when you're scanning, why do they want you do also be filling up your brain with irrelevant nonsense?