tuesday

hey, second morning in a row i've been awake in the morning.  like, at what people in the world consider reasonable or even early.  (got out of bed at 7:15.)

i could get used to this morning thing.  i could definitely get used to sleeping at night, you know what i'm saying?  (verdict on the new sheets, by the way:  HUZZAH.  smooth rather than scratchy, and big enough that they're not coming unwound from the end of the bed.  side point:  i don't understand the appeal of knit sheets.  you've seen the ones made from cotton jersey?  friend who loves them says "it's like sleeping in t-shirts."  i don't see this as a draw.  i really need sheets to be smooth, man.  i don't even like flannel.)

oscars

( Best Picture )

( Best Director )

( Best Actor )

( Best Actress )

i'm going to stop there, because of the twenty nominated performances i've seen two of them, so i'm not predicting anything really and there's no point in going on.  i will say this, though:

the passion of the christ the was nominated only for cinematography, score, and makeup, and fahrenheit 9/11 was totally shut out.  i am not sorry in either case.  there are times i want to lock mel gibson and michael moore in a room together and see who eats the other one first.

also, PoA is nominated for visual effects, but i think it should lose points for the werewolf that looks neither like a man nor a wolf and for the bad CGI dog.

that is all.

in other news, it really annoys me that my ankle doesn't bother me while i'm walking around on it (the couple of miles a day that i'm walking around, so, it's a good thing that it doesn't bother me then; but), but only when i come home and take off my shoes and sit down. it is not right for weight-bearing joints to hurt only when they are bearing no weight.

that is all.

e-mail to professor-people, in explanation of which i compare research to boyfriends

( Dr Supervisor -- )

what we've been talking about, because i do find it interesting, is the influence of the celtic languages on old english (and vice versa).  general wisdom has it that there was very little, and the supposed evidence is the relative lack of celtic loan-words in english; but my feeling is that the languages couldn't have existed in that kind of proximity for that kind of time without having some effect on each other, possibly at some sub-lexical level.  so.

the trouble is that, although i do find this interesting, i don't have enough old english or gaelic, or any welsh at the moment, so i'm grossly underprepared for this sort of thing.  and i don't feel the kind of fire-in-the-belly YES THIS IS THE TOPIC that i understand people feel for their dissertation topics.  some people, anyway.  see also lightning bolt, love at first sight, Dear Advice Columnist How Do I Know If He's The One?.

but you all saw how excited i got when i read the thing about shape rules last week!  that's half the thing that got me in to linguistics in the first place!  no matter where else i go, i always come back to morphology and syntax; This Could Be The One!

so, you know, i hope the professors say, parent-like, Oh, good; we didn't want to say anything, because you said you were happy and you ought to be free to live your own life, but we never thought that other topic was any good for you.