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morning roundup
-- having begun to read gaudy night, i realize that shrewsbury college, if it actually existed, would be pretty much outside my window. i know all the places sayers names in the first five or ten pages; i pass by them every day. hurrah!
-- dream theater: i don't know where i was, but i was with some people watching baseball on TV. the losing team was playing very, very badly, bless their hearts, and for some reason i have the idea that they were the new washington nationals. le sigh. anyway at one point i was talking to someone about my new MPhil topic (stress assignment in english compound words and phrases), and then susan sarandon came in and changed the channel to where thelma and louise was just coming on. she seemed to be looking forward to watching the movie, and i asked her if she'd ever seen it. she sort of raised an eyebrow at me and reminded me that she was in it, and i said of course, i know, but i guess a lot of people don't ever see their own movies, right? at which point i woke up.
-- my australian accent is coming along very nicely. we've got a guy in our college, the junior dean, who is (a) australian and (b) very, very funny, so relating things he's said to other people is good practice for me. :-) also getting better at telling australian from new zealand; "fush" vs. "feesh" for fish, said a new zealander i know, and she seems to be right. there's a guy from south africa in my choir, and i'm trying to listen to him as much as i can to hear what's distinctive about his accent; of course i can tell all the southern-hemisphere englishes apart when i hear them all together, but the goal is to know which one i'm listening to if it's the only one i can hear, and so far i'm not there yet.
-- my australian is coming along so nicely that it's infecting my imitation of eliza doolittle.
-- dream theater: i don't know where i was, but i was with some people watching baseball on TV. the losing team was playing very, very badly, bless their hearts, and for some reason i have the idea that they were the new washington nationals. le sigh. anyway at one point i was talking to someone about my new MPhil topic (stress assignment in english compound words and phrases), and then susan sarandon came in and changed the channel to where thelma and louise was just coming on. she seemed to be looking forward to watching the movie, and i asked her if she'd ever seen it. she sort of raised an eyebrow at me and reminded me that she was in it, and i said of course, i know, but i guess a lot of people don't ever see their own movies, right? at which point i woke up.
-- my australian accent is coming along very nicely. we've got a guy in our college, the junior dean, who is (a) australian and (b) very, very funny, so relating things he's said to other people is good practice for me. :-) also getting better at telling australian from new zealand; "fush" vs. "feesh" for fish, said a new zealander i know, and she seems to be right. there's a guy from south africa in my choir, and i'm trying to listen to him as much as i can to hear what's distinctive about his accent; of course i can tell all the southern-hemisphere englishes apart when i hear them all together, but the goal is to know which one i'm listening to if it's the only one i can hear, and so far i'm not there yet.
-- my australian is coming along so nicely that it's infecting my imitation of eliza doolittle.