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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2004-10-20 09:10 am

general wednesday morning schtuff

1. i'm sorry. (all readers whose very first reactions were "for what?" may safely assume that was not directed at them.)

2. i grew up in a room that was quite small -- possibly as small as half the size of the room i'm in now -- but didn't have heat in the room, since the heat register was out on the landing. so my whole life, i was accustomed to the bed being cold when i got in it, but by morning the bed was the only warm spot in a freezing cold room. you wouldn't think it would take me so long to get used to that again, especially when it's only 40 degrees outside.

3. wednesday is just going to be the Day of Not Fun this whole term. i have foreseen it. (an hour of going over problem sets, followed by an hour for lunch, followed by two hour-and-a-half lectures in a row. rar. the first of which is phonetics, which, with all due respect to phoneticians, i've had up to here. and i'm not kidding -- intro to linguistics as a freshman, phonetics as a sophomore, intro to linguistics as a first-year grad student, which i sat through again the following year as a TA and also graded the assignments and also taught a supplemental discussion section. i am familiar with articulatory phonetics kthnx.) (ditto phonology, by the way, but at least there's some theories in there that interest me. toward the morphology side.)

4. GO RED SOX!
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
On 2.: Aren't you allowed to bring in a heater?

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
probably not. and the thing is, there is a heater -- in edinburgh, i had a heater on a timer (it could be marginally less freezing cold either when i went to bed or when i woke up, but not both), but here, i've got an actual heater on a thermostat-type thing. issues are, it's clear across the room and not very powerful, but if i turn it on at night then i'm sweltering by morning.

no way to win, really. :-)

[identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
1. Ok.

2. I have a heated mattress pad. Are such things as heated mattress pads or electric blankets allowed?

3. Um, shouldn't that make it an easy A? Or whatever it is they give out for grades over there?

4. Who?