Exciting News

This little girl is presenting her research at the AAAL conference in Denver, CO!
http://www.aaal.org/aaal2009/

New Poem

Alligator Cracking
 
We hit a pothole, somewhere near Forbes and Murray
A jostle, without warning, throws me into you.
Your arm catches my uncertainty;
Your eyes grasp my glance, steady into gaze.
 
But the bus stops, a designated
Predetermined location, the line yanked;
Nudge your way, wading through a crowd,
But the trance unbroken, unremitting.
 
While you stumble out, I tighten my grip,
Hang onto [...]

“Mothers of marriageable daughters specifically advise them against marriage to peasants”
 
Gal, Susan (1978). “Peasant men can’t get wives: Language change and sex roles in a bilingual community”. Language and Society. 7(1). 1-16.

Beautiful Faces

Can you measure beauty? Abercrombie would have to answer yes. You’re either a 0 or a 5.
Avoiding monotonous folding, one of my coworkers and I decided to get candy out of the staff office, which was there because we won “the bucket” for that month. The bucket is a HUGE tin of candy that the [...]

If you haven’t seen this…

http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html
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61C

While there has been nothing to report as of late, there seems to be so much left unsaid. From small art gallery shows, with their musty smells and cheap wine, how so much creativity and beauty appeared in such an ugly, rundown area, to learning to play shuffle board and the ignorance of the bartender [...]

A is for Apple…

So if I mentioned the ‘hey, what’s going on’ tag question before, I probably mentioned my theory on the rhetorical questions as greetings thing. Just to recap… I find it interesting that some people respond to the rhetorical greeting, some people simple acknowledge the greeting, others respond and elaborate, and most people ignore it all [...]

Off to school

At 9:15, I stood waiting for the 9:21 shuttle to Upitt, not the city bus, the Walnut Capital Shuttle. I felt like an elementary school kid, waiting for the bus, backpack and all. At 9:22, when the shuttle failed to appear, I became increasingly more nervous about not making it to campus. Then it appeared, [...]

Hey! What’s going on?

I started working at abercrombie yesterday (which was a nightmare by the way because I had to work 10-3 and then work at hooters 4-close but anyway). At first, I thought that the owner of the company must have a severe case of OCD. I refolded clothes that were already folded, made sure hangers were [...]

The Bait

In case anyone was wondering, the title of my blog comes from a John Donne poem, which I recently stumbled upon. I posted it below. Also, the photo that is the header was taken in Père Lachaise and is scribbling on Oscar Wilde’s grave.
The Bait
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some [...]