The neverending post
Seems like I'm slowly losing my ability to wake up early. Back in the day, when I was in high school, I'd get up at 4:50 every morning to study Latin. Then I woke up at 6:30 in the mission field. This past school year I usually woke up at 7:00, except on the days when I had an 8:00 class (6:00). And now that my first class starts at noon, I wake up at 8:00, and it's disturbing. I'm not a sleeping-in kind of person, and when I wake up later than 7:00 I feel like half the day is already gone. I'm sure it's just a self-control thing and all I have to do is kick myself hard enough (metaphorically, of course :)) and I'll be back to waking up early again.
Yesterday there were a bunch of kids in the Wilk, probably on some school outing or something. I really miss kids. I have two younger sisters and six younger brothers, and all the brothers are under 16 (youngest is five), but now that I've moved out I only see them every few weeks. And there aren't many kids on campus -- but when there are, it's feels so great to see them.
Also yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with some of my coworkers about accents. I'll admit that I'm somewhat given to attempting a British accent from time to time (okay, okay, it's more than just time to time :)), and in my linguistics class we were talking about phonology and phonetics and all that. I got to thinking: if I were to study the rules for British English, then it would be a lot easier to imitate, as I'd have a basis for understanding the British accents I hear. So I went to Google and found this really cool site: English Accents and Dialects, at Collect Britain from the British Library. Eventually I want to study other accents, too (like Southern, Boston, German-English, etc.). Maybe there's more of an actor in me than I thought... :)
Oh, I promised a link to the transcript of Dallin H. Oaks's and Van C. Gessel's talks. So far there aren't any for either, but here are links to the audio archives: Dallin H. Oaks and Van C. Gessel (scroll down to the May 3, 2005 one).
Looks like this'll be a long post. :) I was listening to Kenneth Cope's song "White Dress" and realized that I haven't been doing much family history lately. I used to go up to the Salt Lake Family History Library every Saturday, but now I go to the TRC and my weekdays haven't been free. Fall semester I was totally captivated and spent much of my free time researching the Robert Shanks family, but winter semester it started dying out and now I'm back down to nothing. But it shouldn't be that way -- I do want to find out who my ancestors were. I think I need to give myself a set time each week to do it; otherwise it probably won't happen. (You know, I thought spring term would be much easier and not as busy as fall/winter semesters. Nope, totally wrong.)
Yesterday there were a bunch of kids in the Wilk, probably on some school outing or something. I really miss kids. I have two younger sisters and six younger brothers, and all the brothers are under 16 (youngest is five), but now that I've moved out I only see them every few weeks. And there aren't many kids on campus -- but when there are, it's feels so great to see them.
Also yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with some of my coworkers about accents. I'll admit that I'm somewhat given to attempting a British accent from time to time (okay, okay, it's more than just time to time :)), and in my linguistics class we were talking about phonology and phonetics and all that. I got to thinking: if I were to study the rules for British English, then it would be a lot easier to imitate, as I'd have a basis for understanding the British accents I hear. So I went to Google and found this really cool site: English Accents and Dialects, at Collect Britain from the British Library. Eventually I want to study other accents, too (like Southern, Boston, German-English, etc.). Maybe there's more of an actor in me than I thought... :)
Oh, I promised a link to the transcript of Dallin H. Oaks's and Van C. Gessel's talks. So far there aren't any for either, but here are links to the audio archives: Dallin H. Oaks and Van C. Gessel (scroll down to the May 3, 2005 one).
Looks like this'll be a long post. :) I was listening to Kenneth Cope's song "White Dress" and realized that I haven't been doing much family history lately. I used to go up to the Salt Lake Family History Library every Saturday, but now I go to the TRC and my weekdays haven't been free. Fall semester I was totally captivated and spent much of my free time researching the Robert Shanks family, but winter semester it started dying out and now I'm back down to nothing. But it shouldn't be that way -- I do want to find out who my ancestors were. I think I need to give myself a set time each week to do it; otherwise it probably won't happen. (You know, I thought spring term would be much easier and not as busy as fall/winter semesters. Nope, totally wrong.)
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