i'm on a roll in language development this week. phonetics was cancelled today, so i had no class till 1pm and i was 'this' close to skipping 266 because i wasn't feeling wonderful and i'm just plain bored by the class. but i went anyway and it was good. we worked for a while on ambiguous language, which is interesting stuff. our worksheet was children's jokes in which we had to determine if it was phonological, lexical, syntactic or deep structure ambiguity. none of that really matters now, what amused me the most, besides the jokes which i have to admit were pretty entertaining, was leah's response to one of them. so the joke and it's answer goes like this (keep in mind these are simple examples in which we're looking for ambiguous language): "what's worse than raining cats and dogs?".... "hailing taxis!" cute right? so leah breaks out laughing, which is followed by this: "i don't get it." it was priceless. apparently she did get the joke, but couldn't find the ambiguous language, hence the i don't get it, but it was definitely an entertaining moment.

after class ash and i neglected out research papers, put on our sunglasses and went rollarblading to get ice cream. after having ice skated the first 8 weeks of this semester, i lost the ability to rollarblade. my goodness was that an awkward first couple blocks. i had no idea it would be so hard to transition. they seem so similar... ha... they're not. but never fear, i survived, improved and the ice cream and sunshine was superb.

at awanas tonight i worked with a little guy by the name of abishuah. stevens point parents have very odd naming ideas for children. that's the weirdest i've run into, but there have been other creative ones.

i think i have bronchitis. mom thinks i might too. fun times. bubye