hey, so linguistics lecture was really interesting today. we had a guest speaker - one of the authors of a book we had to read, deaf in america. i was actually really looking forward to the lecture today. i even got to class early. okay, so i'm a nerd. anyway, the author, carol padden, is Deaf. so it was really interesting watching her lecture. she had an interpreter (a really good interpreter) but it was just really cool watching her sign. it made me want to take an asl class again. i took asl in 7th grade, but i've pretty much forgotten everything except for the alphabet. her lecture was really interesting too (repetition of "really interesting." must buy thesaurus. anyone recognize that line? it's from sliding doors. ;) um, anyway..).

fremont people - you guys know how we have the california school for the deaf in fremont? like, we're always passing it and we never really know much about it. yeah, well, today she mentioned it in lecture. she told us that it used to be in berkeley but then uc berkeley bought the land so it moved to san jose and then eventually moved to fremont. now it serves the entire bay area. i don't know why, but i always thought it just served fremont. so fremont's actually got something pretty important in it. i always thought it was just some small, weird town that no one ever went to except to get their kids into "good" schools. overall, her lecture was pretty cool. i didn't fall asleep at all! ;) she talked about the telephone, tty's, captionings, her family life (which i thought was the most interesting part), and she answered a few questions too. one guy asked her if she thinks in english or in sign and she said that when she writes, she thinks in english, and when she signs, she thinks in sign, which makes total sense cuz if you're fluent in two languages, you usually think in whatever language you're speaking. but then it's weird to think that people think in sign, isn't it? i guess their thoughts are just more "visual" as opposed to "wordy." i don't know.

you know, it's classes like these that make me really enjoy learning. i don't think i've enjoyed learning enough. i mean, we complain about it so much. actually, we just mostly complain about the work. i know, i know, i do it too. everyone does. work just sucks [hairy monkey balls. big ones]. i hope once i start taking my psych classes, i'll start liking school more. oh i know, it's so gross to like school, but what can i say, i'm a geek. and a dork. i am SUCH a dork. i can't believe it. i'm embarrassed of myself some times. i say and do so many dorky things. ah well. i don't like ALL of school. just the cool classes. like linguistics. and psych. :)

hey, i feel kinda bad. i just emailed my mom like, practically all of my vietnamese homework cuz i couldn't figure out a lot of it. and i know she goes to bed early so instead of just sitting there and trying to figure it out and THEN asking for her help, i just sent her the entire thing so she could fill it out for me before she went to bed. ;) this is bad, i know. didn't do too well on my last vietnamese test either. :-/ i mean, it was better than what i expected so i shouldn't feel too bad, but still. it's not good. dammit. i knew i should've switched the class to pass/no pass, especially since i'm only taking this class for "fun." my gpa is going to be awful this quarter. thank GOD i was allowed to take physics pass/no pass, otherwise i'd be in a whole shitload of trouble. anyway. going to make pancakes now. god, i've been eating so much. but my mouth still wants to eat.

OH WELL. WHO CARES. FOOD IS GOOD, RIGHT? RIGHT.