A Girl With a Sword

we can always use more sufjan

I'm on my third cup of bad coffee for the day. There have been no cups of good coffee (although early in the day I am too incoherent to notice these things). One of the people at work brought in good coffee today, though. We just have to find a grinder. I've been learning about percolation lately. I haven't used this method since the summer after my freshman year, when I lived with Emily Barfhead Shaw's LSD-coffee maker (may it rest in peace). Percolation makes fun noises.

I've also been learning about syntax and sociolinguistics and Old English. Those are the three classes I've settled on. I decided that four was too much. And today I am thinking, and this could be just the bad coffee talking, that I love syntax more than anything else, definitely more than sociolingustics. And this is significant because I went into linguistics thinking I wanted to be a sociolinguist. But I'm realizing that may not be where my fascination lies. I like the clear abstractness of syntax and phonology. The problem, though, with choosing to be a syntactician or a phonologist is that I would pretty much be alienating myself from the rest of the world. You can't talk about syntax and phonology with people the way you can talk about Jane Austen, or even The Faerie Queene. So, that's my thought for the day concerning where this is all going.

Also, bought Sufjan's The Avalanche yesterday. So far, I love it. I wasn't sure what to expect, it being what was rejected from Illinois and all, but you can always use more Sufjan and that's exactly what this is.