Linguistical Days and other stufff

Well, for starters...I am not a morning person, so 8am class is a little hairy for me at times. It's difficult to think about second language acquisition and it's related theories when you are basically a three-toed sloth. I make it to Articulatory Phonetics around 9am (the walk outside usually clears away the rest of the sleepy fuzz...although knowing that the phonetics classroom is infested with spiders keeps me awake as well). I listen to whoever the TA for that class is that week say words with phonetic sounds that I didn't even know I could make. Then I get to write the symbols for those sounds on the white board (all of this time I am also keeping an eye out for spiders...anything within a 6-foot radius of my body will die underneath my shoe, not kidding). Then I go to either Sociolinguistics or Syntax and Morphology, depending upon the day... Sociolinguistics is a really interesting theory course that explores the connections between language and culture. Syntax and Morphology is a pretty neat class too (it's basically grammar on steroids...just forget about English grammar, though...it will not help you very much...).

That's all for now.

~C