it was so cold today! :( i was wearing a thin, long sleeve white shirt (the guess one that jo gave me for my birthday last year), jeans, and flip flops, but i had to come back after physics discussion to throw on my ucsd sweatshirt. felt much better after that.

so i was right. kind of. physics lecture was cancelled yesterday because the professor's wife is in labor. they induced her on sunday. heard that from the ta today in discussion. prof's still going to be gone tomorrow, but unfortunately there's still lecture. :-/ ta's going to teach lecture.

oh, linguistics lecture was pretty funny today. prof was teaching us about role shift. in english, the verb we use for that is "say," as in "he said," "she said," "i said," etc. he writes these down on the board. then, he writes "californian" on the board and tells the class, "there are three verbs for role shift in californian. can anyone tell me what they are?" and all these hands shoot up. first person responds, "go," as in "so he goes blah blah blah, and then i go blah blah blah..." you know, i didn't even think of that one. anyway, next person responds, "all," as in "he was all...and then i was all..." third person responds, "like," as in, "she was like...and he was like..." so the professor decides to give us an example of this by doing a REALLY good valley girl impersonation and saying, "and then i was like, oh my god!" now remember, my linguistics professor is this old man, late 50's to early 60's, with the top part of his head bald and the sides covered with white hair, wearing a sweater vest over a pinstriped collar shirt with gray suit pants. the class just burst out laughing. it was one of the funniest things i've ever heard. and it's just funny in general to think that there's such thing as "californian."

earlier (i don't think i blogged about this), like several weeks ago, he was teaching us about the difference between pronouns in english and pronouns in asl; things like the subjective, objective, possessive, gender, number, and case. and then he says, "when i first came to california, i was surprised to learn that they had their own second person plural pronouns. does anyone know that it is?" no one responded so he told us: "you guys." and we all started laughing. i mean, i've noticed how much we use that phrase, but i never really thought of it as a "second person plural pronoun." so then he says, "and there's even a possessive of 'you guys'! does anyone know what it is?" again, no one responds, so he says, "your guys's!!" the class just laughs even harder. it's so funny...californian just seems so silly but it's like we can't help it. okay, well, i think i know why i never blogged about this. it doesn't sound very funny at all. guess it's just another one of those you-had-to-be-there things. man, my ling professor is great. such a funny guy.

okay, i really need to continue with my reading now. i've got tons of linguistics reading and italian reading to do. and then i've got a vietnamese midterm (there's actually a midterm!) on thursday. you know what really sucks? a lot of people in that class actually only study for about an hour or two hours for the vietnamese tests while i study for like the entire night and they still end up getting a better grade than me. of course, they can actually SPEAK the language while i just sound like i'm butchering it. but still...it just sucks that my hard work doesn't really pay off. doesn't really encourage me to study for this next test. :-/

i cannot WAIT for the weekend to come. three-day weekend, man!! hopefully, i'll receive the dvd i won off ebay by then. i like saying "i won" things off of ebay rather than "i purchased" things off ebay. makes me feel like i'm getting these cool packages in the mail for free. =D