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I decided to expand the repertoire of my blog and start doing some lonely hearts ads!
My housemate Dan is desperate to find a girlfriend, in his words "4/10 and over preferable"!
Only other requirement is that she must be shorter than him, less than about 5ft 8".
Leave a comment if interested!

Nemo!

Watched finding nemo, woo!! Hadn't watched it in years, it's cool!
Ooh and I forgot, this morning me and Alex (who is asking to be mentioned on my blog!) watched look and read which was amazing! We used to watch it at primary school, it is one fantastic programme! They were doing spelling rules for words ending in y, and how to form the plural of nouns, which actually taught me quite a lot! Although I was then overanalysing everything in linguistic terms and making it really complicated! But it gave me the ambition to do some kids tv programme teaching french! So watch out for me on french tv in a few years time! There was also a very funny bit on the programme with wolves trying to get onto the ark, but they weren't allowed cos they had a badge saying wolfs and not wolves! They then dressed up elephants and tried to get on in disguise but there were already enough elephants so that didn't work!! So you see, that's what happens to you if you ignore the rules of grammar!

Decision made!

I got a better offer so decided to stay in and watch a film with Alex! Then it doesn't matter if I fall asleep! I'm such an old woman!!

On the other hand...

I am actually really tired and will probably fall asleep if I go out, and I have no money...

To go out or not to go out...

Argh, I really am so rubbish at decision making!! Have been trying to decide for at least half an hour whether or not to go out tonight! It's such a hard decision, so many things to take into account!! Although I'm thinking maybe it'd be a good idea really...hmm...yes, I will go!!! Woo, maybe this is the way to make decisions, write about them on my blog! Will remember that for future reference! Now I just have to decide what to wear...

Monday morning

I made it in for my 9am lecture today, woo! 2 weeks in a row! I may have been 10 minutes late, but that is unimportant, it's the other 40 minutes I was there for which matter! And I managed to get almost everything right in the test we had, despite not having been to any of the classes on the topic the test was on! Go me!
And I finally got my exam results!! Got 67% in syntactic theory and 70% in psycholinguistcs, not bad given the amount of revision I did! Especially syntactic theory for which I started revising the day before!

My stupid mistake of the day

I am so silly, and here is proof of it! When I woke up this morning I looked at my clock and it said 1.50pm so I got in a huge panic cos I should have left the house around 9 to go to kids club, and thought I'd slept through my alarm and missed it all. But then when I checked my phone it said 9.10am so the panic was over and I managed to not be late! Anyway....when I just got back home I decided to check out the mystery of the alarm clock...Turns out when I reset it last night after the power had gone off I'd set the time as the alarm time and the alarm time as the normal time!! Duh!!

Naughty Marijn

Woo, I am no longer the only person to have broken the agreement! Thanks Marijn, I feel a lot better now!

Naughty me (in the words of Ricardo)

On monday night, an agreement was made between me, Helen, Inge and Marijn that we would all go to all of our lectures until the easter holidays, and then we could get some kind of reward after! I managed it for one day...argh! Unfortunately I failed to hear the part of the agreement which stated that whoever missed a lecture had to buy everyone else beer! Grr! If I had known that, I would have made more of an effort to get up this morning!

Breakfast

Today I discovered something amazing to eat for breakfast - ice-cream on toast!!! (Chocolate ice-cream so it tastes like chocolate spread but better! Especially when it's carte d'or triple chocolate ice-cream!)

Pirates!

In honour of Rachael's birthday we turned into pirates for the night! Yar!





We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.

We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
Maraud and embezzle and even hijack.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.

We kindle and char, inflame and ignite.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
We burn up the city, we're really a fright.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.

We're rascals, scoundrels, villans and knaves.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs!
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.

We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
Aye! But we're loved by our mommies and dads!
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.

Evenki

I am currently studying the language of Evenki...which will be very useful if I ever go to Siberia! We have to do a presentation in two weeks time on this randopm language which I know nothing about apart from that it has millions of words for reindeer! There are 34 different words for different kinds of reindeer, and then loads more for other reindeer-related things! These are a few of my favourites!

reindeer harnessed on the left-hand side of a sledge-team = kostur
reindeer which became wild = gelu:n
castrated reindeer = aktaki
not completely castrated reindeer = nara
reindeer which cannot be trained = mullikan

They're so random!