Things about Kira

-I was gonna say Things I Hate about Kira, but she's just burnt a 12 love songs CD for me, so....

Kira, I love the songs! Especially "Over the Rainbow." Now all I need is a man who I can listen to the song with.

-BTW, we poor grad students always enjoy illegal copies, and especially we Koreans or Chinese do NOT give a damn about copy rights.

1. She's crazy about Star Wars.
-Beside linguistics, Star Wars is her passion. We were supposed to pick out one or two intonation contour. Her example begins with "Now, Star Wars is worthy to buy..."

2. She cannot drive sticks.
-Hm.... she CAN drive.. but not on hills... so basically she cannot go to downtown yet. When did you get the car, Kira?

3. I cannot understand what she says.
-She mumbles not considering me. Now I would call it discrimination against nonnative speakers of English.

4. We can never meet.
-When I call her, she's not available. When she calls, I'm never available. When I go out with other "hip" linguists, she's never there.

5. She rides her bike to school from Turnpike.
-Did I tell you that I can't even make it to South Hall? I leave mine by the Rec Cen.

6. She's always tired.
-What are you doing at night?

7. She never changes her hairstyle.
-Look at Jen. After she got her haircut, she looks darn cute. I don't mean you need to get a haircut. A little change would be nice.

8. She likes cats.
-Do they like you too?

9. She's a linguist.
-It doesn't take her a long time to talk about linguistics whatever the topic is, whenever...

10. I can't read her handwriting.
-Your handwriting is as illegible as mine.

I Hate Studying

I hate studying. I hate studying. I hate studying.

I've never liked studying all through my life. I was always interested in some other stuff other than school.

What am I doing here? Why am I still studying at the age of 34? What did go wrong?

I despised an education system believing that it ruined kids' free spirit and killed creativity.

Life is so full of absurdity.... who knew that I would work on a Ph degree? Damn, life sucks...

OOOOOOOOOOO, LINGUISTS!

Look 7 commnents on I Hate Theories. Chill out, linguists. It ain't serious. I'll use references and cite sources from now on, OK?

Man, those linguists are always serious...

p.s. Thanx for your kind explanations though. Those made sense.

I Hate Theories

Why do scholars always cite sources? Are they not confident enough that they're writing the right stuff? Do they want to show that they are not manipulating the fact by showing that their paper is actually based on other "well known" scholars' argument? Or do they simply know there is nothing new out there?

Whatever the reason is I hate citing sources. Why can I not write whatever I think it is right based on data? I'm NOT studying medicine. My paper doesn't have to be so accurate. If there are people who have problems with my paper, criticize it, and I can argue them back.

I wanna be known for my originality instead of a cleaver scholar who cites important sources well and develop her idea from there.

What? Am I too much idealistic? Duh! I AM an idealist!

I hate Valentine's Day

Especially when I don't have my Valentine. How many times I made a basket full of chocolate for someone all through my life? Where the hell are they now?

I espcially hated this one because I had a blind date on Valentine's day. He chose a family restaurant where full of seniors were having dinner. Not so much my style... Then he talked about his failure on past relationships for hours! It seemed like he chose neurotic women all the time. Well, I told him that he should have a girl take a full psychological test before he makes any kind of commitment. Obviously, I'm not the one for him. Although I get insane at times, I have fairly healthy set of mind. Too bad. He was very good looking and had killer smile.

Did I say I hate phonology?

I know I already said it, but let me say it one more time. I HATE phonology. I never liked mathematics in high school. This is exactly like mathematics. I'm sooooooooooooooo stressed out. Why does it have to be a requirement when I don't have a slight interest in it?

I hate morning

I'm a night person. I love being awake at night. Although I get up around 6 am these days, I insist I'm still a night person in nature.

Don't I hate morning? Yes, yes, yes. I hate morning.

p.s. Got a very, very cute coffee maker... That'll make my morning a little less stressful..

I hate beautiful sunny days

when I have alot of things to do.

It's beautiful outside. I very much want to go to beach and take a nap listening to the ocean.

Instead of having relaxing Saturday afternoon, I'm stuck here at a coffe shop trying to work on syntax, phonology, or romanizing Korean data.

Why do I have to this? Why do I NOT have a life? Why the f*ck I'm majoring in linguistics when I don't know a damn thing about it?????????????????

My roomy just said cuz we're grad students. A grad school consumes our life... I guess she's right.

p.s. Nobu cooked last night. Looked goddamn serious and worked on one dish for more than one and half hour. Janie suggested me to keep him as my wife. Gotta think of it seriously.... Only problem is that I hate his gut. That sounds about right though. After all, all married couples seem to be stuck in marriage while they hate each other's gut. Really, whenever a wife disappears or gets killed, her hudsband automatically becomes a number one suspect.