Three more weeks of school. I can make it. I can. Three more. Breathe.

Cat's got a new haircut, woo woo! (previous haircut)


Today I finally finished a Syntax assignment, which I have now completed THREE times, and now it is handed in and I can't make any more adjustments to it! Fourth year Syntax is both interesting and infuriating because we're exploring issues on the cutting edge of a fairly new field. The questions on our assignments are ones that don't really have answers yet. We just have to come up with a plausible solution and point out ways that our answers aren't quite right. It's cool, because we get to hear about what syntacticians are yelling at each other about at conferences (I wish I was exaggerating), but frustrating because the theory as it stands right now doesn't quite work for every piece of data. We (well, let's be honest, THEY) still have a lot of work to do.

I've had kind of a rough day, one of those "oh crap, I'm not going to start crying on the subway, am I?" kind of days, and I think I'm just going to chalk it up to PMS and start over tomorrow. My roommates are in similar states of resignation, so we have decided that tonight is Movie Night and, furthermore, that There Will Be No Talk Of Work Tonight. Which is just what I need. :)

Funniest question in my Language and Mind class today: "So, like, why is Chomsky such an ass? Like, to everyone?" Ha!