What do you do with a BA in English?

My life is a song.

Song for the day:
"What do you do with a B.A. in English? What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet, 'Cause I have no skills yet.
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake the feeling I might make
A difference to the human race."

Taken from a very funny musical called Avenue Q which I was lucky enough to see on Broadway! The lyrics sound a tad too serious when taken out of context like this; try to imagine it's being sung by a puppet called Princeton. :)

Seriously though, any ideas on how to save the world with German/Linguistics major? Cause that's the way it seems to be heading at the moment... a far cry from the environmental science/sustainability degree that almost was.

The Secret Life of Laura Hayman

Music in my head today: "Old man river... that old man river..."
Some days I feel like Walter Mitty.
Apparently my excessive vivid daydreaming may be preparing me for future events (maybe not exams or assignment deadlines)... or it could just be helping me avoid reality.
But it also may account for why am generally not impulsive, am not delinquent or violent and do not take drugs (unless you include alcohol).
p.s. If you don't know who Danny Kaye is, I suggest you find out. :)
p.p.s. Why is it that I just turn into a babbling idiot when I'm nervous?

Playdough, sand and slime

"Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away..."
The Musical Island Boys came to chorus tonight, oh my goodness AMAZING! What a bass voice; I'm in love. Seriously, Musical Island Boys are the greatest. Go buy their CD.


We had a lovely day playing and getting really grubby... what is it that stops us from stomping in puddles and having slime fights as we grow up?

After a lovely morning I discovered again that people suck!!! I've just been labelled 'unreliable' by someone, just because they like to have a bitch! No justification what so ever, not trying to cover up for anything, she apparently just has nothing better to do than to say shit about other people, marr their names and jeopardise their future in the organisation. (I hope you read this!)
*claws*

Oh I hate to leave on a angry note but there's not much else to say. Most of life is great... and you idiots out there can go die in a hole!

Phrase structure RULES or morphologists get more roots

Kelly who used to live in my room came around tonight and we shared some cunning linguist jokes. Ah, good times.
Kel and Ash understand the linguistics obsession. I think I may have found what I'm majoring in. How's this...
spin sounds the same if you replace the p with a b sound... say it! spin... sbin... spin... sbin.

These are from http://www.qwantz.com/ So funny...
Em, I stil like the Salt n Peppa dinos however.

So many funny dinosaurs!

BOGGLE and PUCS

Ok so 'schmos' is not a word, and neither is 'getgo' for that matter... that boggle makes up words Daniel!
I went to Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (I don't reckon there are many undergrads in it though!) tonight with Ash (she's doing a mad recruiting drive) and they sound really nice. It's not at all what I'm used to; they sing from music so don't really go through bits to get it precise, you just pick it up as you go. It will take me a while to get used to it I think, but it's kind of cool singing like a girl again. I was singing D's! No, not the one below middle C as usual but two above. :)
It's supposed to be 27 degrees tomorrow! I'm going to wear a skirt and flowers in my hair.

I just don't fit in...

It's been the case for most of my life; I've always just been a little bit strange. Don't get me wrong, I'm not sitting around moping, in fact I often celebrate the fact I'm a little bit weird. Not like 'oh my what a fruit cake' kind of weird, just the occasional puzzled expression. I was actually quite popular at school but I've but told by close friends that people were just never sure how to take me. I've also been told by people I really quite liked when I met them that they thought I didn't like them and that I was a bit 'too cool for school'. It has sort of stopped me from forming too many close friendships... but that's the way I like it.

I'm a big girl now...

I am about to turn 23... and that's fine. At least it's fine until people point it out and pat me on the head like a child. Or conversely say, "Oh.... my.... god!!! Are you in FIRST year?".
What is age anyway? The number of years we have physically been on this earth.
Age is used for expectations ("Act your age"), excuses ("Of course he's disorganised, he's only 18") and discrimination ("As if you'd date a younger man!").`(Don't worry Tommy, I love you enough.... promise).
I know many teenagers with more 'life experience' than many 40 year olds, 15 year olds counting down the days until they turn 18 and can vote and 50 year olds who have never voted in their life and 'young' people with their heads more firmly on their shoulders than anyone I've met.
Now I accept that people form different generations (for example) may not have anything to talk about, but there are multiple people in their 20s, who are Australian, who live around the corner, go to UWA and are girls (for example) that I could not think of a single word to say to!

(In no way do I mean to offend the person whose comment triggered this 'outburst'; I'm sure it was meant to be endearing. This is just something that gets on my nerves.)

On a completely different topic...
I used to play Boggle with my boyfriend's sister after every Friday night (Shabbat) dinner. When Adam and I split up and his family turned aginst me, my boggle playing died. I played it the other day and an now obsessed again. Unfortunately I don't know anyone else as enthusiastic about boggle as Em.

Henna

It's a stunning day. All I want to do is go on an adventure. But today, like yesterday I'm sitting at my computer pretending really hard to do some uni work. We'll see...