We're on a Roll

Currently in Earphones: "Summon the Worms" "Fear is the Mind Killer" and "The Jihad" from Children of Dune composed by Brian Tyler. Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack by Thomas Newman.

I suppose a new post is in order.

Finally got my class schedule worked out. Now I've got two awesome professors instead of two mediocre ones. A Prof. Benware for my Ling 1 and Prof. Runden for Latin 100N. Benware is way cool, and we are constantly exploring new languages to demonstrate different morphologies for the time being. I also found out from him why Eastern Indian dialects sound so odd to the English ear: they make use of a retroflex. To demonstrate: make the "tuh" sound like you're saying "to." Notice how the tip of your tongue touches the upper palate of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Practice saying "Ah-tah, Ah-tah" that you may get the sound in your ear. Now, instead of using the tip of the top of your tongue, curl the front of it and say "tah" with the underside of the tip. The "tah" should come from the area of your mouth closer to your throat, not from the upper front like a English "tah." It is the use of this retroflex that produces that kind of, say "chewy" (for the lack of a better adjective) dialect, at least to the English ear.

Prof. Runden is just a blast. I won't go into detail, just give you one of his off-the-cuff quotes that I had the foresight to write down: "Romans fall into [using] indirect statements like drunks fall into gutters." This is gonna be fun.

Reader, I must confess. There is a new woman in my life. I will not mention names or specifics, because I don't want to break any privacy and trust that we have. All I will say is that I am amazed that we click as well as we do, as well as the fact that she wants to see as much of me as I see of her.

Reader, a personal diversion, if I may...

The last few times I went out with women, through whatever reasons of their own, I was invariably not seeing as much of them as they wished to see of me. Both times I ended with the painful question of "Is it I that is wrong, is it I who is wanting too much? Am I such a horrible person for wanting to spend as much time with them as I do?" Both times I chalked it up as my failure, but this time, with this woman.....I am constantly amazed and delighted.

To continue, I spent last night with her until the wee hours of the morning, savoring every second of it. The price that I had to pay was one of time. I had an 8am class the next morning, and I paid it in full:

Today was absolutely crazy. I had classes all throughout the day, with breaks long enough for me to get bored and short enough that I couldn't go home. Drama 10 from 8am-10-am, Linguistics 1 from 11am-12pm, Latin 100N from 1pm-2pm, 2 hour break to go home for 15 minutes, Comp. Lit. Discussion from 4pm-5pm, run home for a 15 minute dinner, then over to Hickey Gym for Fencing from 6pm-9pm, in which I get the snot beaten out of me while learning valuable ways to stab people. Whoooo!

And now to go stumble into bed.

Enough. More Later.
- James