Archive for the 'epiphanies' Category
Every semester it seems I have the same realization, sometime during the first week or two, that producing any sort of work to turn in is a long and involved process. This process includes such stages as “the vague feeling of dread when you remember that paper you have to write next week”, and [...]
I have a confession to make: I have become a sports fan. I have no idea how this happened. All I know is that it’s been a slow climb from the angsty, it’s-just-a-game-griping teenager that I was to the kind of person who frantically searches through the newspaper for some huge picture of my [...]
email U. Virginia people RE: Tibet
trim plants
call tech support about my computer’s insomnia
make a dentist appointment
meet with Safa about writing up our data from last semester (!)
I will do them soon, though! Things I did do today included having my JA interview, which was all different kinds of fun/exciting/anxiety-inducing, not to mention my group’s [...]
I got another fun book today, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler. From the first chapter:
In considering human history, the language community is a very natural unit. Languages, by their nature as means of communication, divide humanity into groups: only through a common language can a group [...]
Steph and I are watching The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There’s a scene where they’re all on the Nautilus, and they find a record that was planted by the “bad guy,” and Capt. Nemo puts it on his awesome pimped out (Victorian style!) phonograph. The thing that immediately sprang to mind was the [...]
Being in my room at home makes me feel like somehow time here moves in slow motion, or maybe only when I’m around. This space is a sort of time capsule from when I left home, looking kind of barren but still lived in, letters and bills unopened, pencils still on the window sill, [...]
I've been reading a lot of papers recently about how humans might learn categories in different ways depending on their structure, and I think that, if this is true, this would have huge implications for education.
The basic idea behind the COVIS (COmpetition between Verbal and Implicit Systems) model of categorization is that there are two [...]
I was walking back from the coffee shop yesterday afternoon, and there was a small traditional irish music ensemble playing in the alleyway by Images (our little hole-in-the-wall-only-plays-indie-flicks movie theater, for you non-Williams people out there), accompanied by a small but enthusiastic crowd of onlookers. One of these, a wonderful nice old man, turned [...]
Running with a companion seems to be a good thing for me. Or maybe I'm just in better shape than the last time I ran this route, but I don't think that's the case since I haven't run for a week. In any case, I was definitely running much more comfortably/loosely/fast(ly?). I [...]
I'm sitting here, at nearly two a.m., frantically pecking away at the keyboard on this problem set in the vain hope that I will get a somewhat reasonable amount of sleep tonight, nibbling neuroticaly on a hollow, half-eaten chocolate bunny I received for easter, when all of a sudden, out of the blue, it hit [...]
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