cant wait

harry potter and the goblet of fire. that was my favorite book, i think. although i havent read the first few in awhile. i just remember liking the 4th one. and now it comes out friday!

im turning in our final draft of the phonology paper. did i mention working with a partner is hard? but its good for me no matter how i complain. it makes me more willing to do a thorough job so i dont ruin someone else's grade. i have a good partner too. we have a few more things to turn in after this but its good to have at least one done.

also, i cant wait to go to the aukermans for thanskgiving. it will be so much fun. and four days without classes! its almost unheard of. and its cold out finally! i hope it lasts awhile.
Thank you God, you are good.

beatles

im finding that i really like the beatles a lot more than i thought i would. im kinda sad that i never listened to them sooner. i love all other kinds of classic rock and older stuff (NOT oldies) thanks to my parents who kept a lot of great records around the house (pink floyd, led zeppelin, america, deep purple, etc). unfortunately they werent really into the beatles, therefore i wasnt either. i always liked the songs on the radio that i knew were by them but i didnt always know who did what song. so now im borrowing some cds and getting a chance to see some of their movies and i really like them. way to go me for being late on everything. kinda like me getting a gamecube when they are almost obsolete or an ipod mini right before they stop making them. but its still good!

i should thank God more often for giving people talent. life would be much more boring if they had none.

ok fine

hey beth, did you write that with the help of babelfish? this is Mae and I for halloween. i just wanted to do something different. we ended up going to taco bell for a treat and watching nightmare before christmas. that was fun. woo hoo. sorry i dont have cute baby pictures to post =)

this is halloween, halloween lalala

almost thanksgiving

woo hoo! its november anyway. thats all great execpt its in the 80s. bleh. i will never get used to this. i just want to wear a scarf and hat. thats all i ask!

our last set of classes are field methods, field data management (lab on how to organize and analyze data with this program) and cultural anthropology. field methods is just that, ways to effectivily gather data and other things. for both of those classes we are continuing to learn korean and we are beginning to analyze it.

ive been busy (probably not busy enough) with phonology in field methods. we have a phonology sketch of korean due on monday. it will be good to get that out of the way. then we can focus on grammar syntax and morphology. grammar is more interesting to me.

the swahili grammar problem (final project last session) was almost fun. other than the fact it took me about 24 hours total to do. but i got one of the highest grades! that was encouraging. since i finished it at 5:40 am monday. and dont think of me as a slacker! i started thursday night, even though we had a test the next day. i worked on it a couple hours friday, all day saturday (until 1am) and then another six hours sunday night. everytime i looked at the clock i thought, "good im almost done its early!" but then i would look at the clock again and it would be two hours later and i wasnt done yet.

time to eat. happy 3 days after halloween!