Thankfully PBI Airport has free WiFi…posting this from my Nokia E6li…the thing has so far really impressed me and will do well as my only device in Israel.
Right now waiting dor baggage and then taking Grandmahome. Heading to Buffalo tomorrow via PBI to JFK to BUF…updates as I have them.
Peace,
Matan
Thankfully PBI Airport has free WiFi…posting this from my Nokia E6li…the thing has so far really impressed me and will do well as my only device in Israel.
Right now waiting dor baggage and then taking Grandmahome. Heading to Buffalo tomorrow via PBI to JFK to BUF…updates as I have them.
Peace,
Matan
I hold on so nervously
To me and my drink
I wish it was cooling me
But so far has not been good
It’s been shitty
And I feel awkward as I should
This club has got to be
The most pretentious thing
Since I thought you and me
Well I am imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place
Well I’m not paralyzed
But I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
I hold out for one more drink
Before I think
I’m looking too desperately
But so far has not been fun
I should just stay home
If one thing really means one
This club will hopefully
Be closed in three weeks
That would be cool with me
Well I’m still imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place
Well I’m not paralyzed
But I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
[repeat 2x]
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
[repeat]
— Paralyzer – Fingers Eleven
This song has now moved to #1 on my sex sound track, bringing Bad Touch to Position 2 and Get Freaky by Play-N-Skillz to Position 3.
I hold on so nervously
To me and my drink
I wish it was cooling me
But so far has not been good
It’s been shitty
And I feel awkward as I should
This club has got to be
The most pretentious thing
Since I thought you and me
Well I am imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place
Well I’m not paralyzed
But I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
I hold out for one more drink
Before I think
I’m looking too desperately
But so far has not been fun
I should just stay home
If one thing really means one
This club will hopefully
Be closed in three weeks
That would be cool with me
Well I’m still imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place
Well I’m not paralyzed
But I seem to be struck by you
I wanna make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
[repeat 2x]
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
[repeat]
— Paralyzer – Fingers Eleven
This song has now moved to #1 on my sex sound track, bringing Bad Touch to Position 2 and Get Freaky by Play-N-Skillz to Position 3.
Just as I was having my first sip of coffee at the airport I got a call on my cell phone from JFK in New York…someone turned in my field kit…so hopefully some youngsters didn’t try and assemble it and record over it making lude noises or something…but regardless, I have my field kit back…oh thank God I have my field kit back…I’ll pick it up as soon as I land in NYC. Baruch Hashem!
Just as I was having my first sip of coffee at the airport I got a call on my cell phone from JFK in New York…someone turned in my field kit…so hopefully some youngsters didn’t try and assemble it and record over it making lude noises or something…but regardless, I have my field kit back…oh thank God I have my field kit back…I’ll pick it up as soon as I land in NYC. Baruch Hashem!
Today on America’s Next Top Linguist…
So last night I flew down to NYC to spend the night at my cousin’s pad on 22nd and Lex. (it’s a dream apartment – he pays $500.00 a month, plus internet to babysit someone’s apartment for them and he shares it with them four days a month when they need it).
The reason I was staying with him on Monday Night is because on Tuesday (today) the two of us are going down to Florida to go get our Grandma and bring her up to New York for Thanksgiving (actually, I’m writing this on the plane as we head down there at the moment).
I had a headache (a really, really bad headache…just under migraine level) at the airport. My sleep cycle was off, I had been traveling for the past few days (during the holiday rush) and overall, I wasn’t feeling too hot and I was disoriented, While Mike (my cousin) and I were having Sushi (well, waiting for it) I went to the store in the airport and got some ibuprofen and took 800mg and waited for it to take effect (which happened as I was finishing my last avocado roll). Gathering our things we made our way to the gate and then the airplane and as I got into my seat and got myself buckled in and ready to get work done on the plane, I realized I didn’t have my field kit…fuck…for those of you who aren’t linguists, I’ll break it down for you:
I just lost all of my phonetics fieldwork – all of my data for a semester, we’re talking hundreds of hours worth of work – and I have a term paper (a very, very lengthy term paper) due on that data and the analysis of that data, and the correct transcription of that data (with full diacritics) at the end of the semester…which is in 17 days…and I’ve been working on this data, writing the paper based on this data, for over two months1
“Make it Work!”
So the project is to do a phonetics field assignment on a language we’ve never studied and one that we can’t speak (meaning that: Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Spanish, French, Classical Tibetan & English are all out). I was working on Tagalog with LIW so now not only have I wasted his time (which is embarrassing, professionally unacceptable and humiliating), but now I also need to find a non-monolingual on Long Island because I have to get this project done…this week.
As far as non-monolinguals go (or non-monolinguals who also don’t speak a language that I’ve either studied or can speak) the pickings are slim…but I do have Rabbi Antosofsky (Rabbi Emeritus from my Synagogue) who speaks Aramaic (among a slew of other languages) and Shulamit, while an Israeli, her L1 is actually Romanian as is her mother’s and they’ll both be at Thanksgiving.
So I need to hunt one of them down (probably Shulamit, since she’ll be coming to my Graduation party after Thanksgiving as well as for the meal) and then I have to hunt down or re-create the culturally neutral word list I’ve been using (I did 200 utterances with Jeruen, which means I need closer to 400 since I won’t have access to the speaker again and I won’t be able to fly back down if I notice a phenomenon.
But I’m making it work, and getting it done…I don’t have time to worry about something that I don’t have the ability to get back, it’s gone, I need to get my work done, and I’ll find a way to get it done that’s academically sound and significant.
1 this isn’t even addressing how much my field kit cost…the condenser microphone – which could pick up a cat whisker trailing a piece of glass, was $90.00, the HD MiniDisc was about 499.00…I’ll vomit about that sometime after I land and can take a nice, long, hot shower.
Update: Landed, at my Grandma’s Apartment, and using my mobile phone as a modem (thank you blue tooth)…now excuse me, as I go vomit.
Today on America’s Next Top Linguist…
So last night I flew down to NYC to spend the night at my cousin’s pad on 22nd and Lex. (it’s a dream apartment – he pays $500.00 a month, plus internet to babysit someone’s apartment for them and he shares it with them four days a month when they need it).
The reason I was staying with him on Monday Night is because on Tuesday (today) the two of us are going down to Florida to go get our Grandma and bring her up to New York for Thanksgiving (actually, I’m writing this on the plane as we head down there at the moment).
I had a headache (a really, really bad headache…just under migraine level) at the airport. My sleep cycle was off, I had been traveling for the past few days (during the holiday rush) and overall, I wasn’t feeling too hot and I was disoriented, While Mike (my cousin) and I were having Sushi (well, waiting for it) I went to the store in the airport and got some ibuprofen and took 800mg and waited for it to take effect (which happened as I was finishing my last avocado roll). Gathering our things we made our way to the gate and then the airplane and as I got into my seat and got myself buckled in and ready to get work done on the plane, I realized I didn’t have my field kit…fuck…for those of you who aren’t linguists, I’ll break it down for you:
I just lost all of my phonetics fieldwork – all of my data for a semester, we’re talking hundreds of hours worth of work – and I have a term paper (a very, very lengthy term paper) due on that data and the analysis of that data, and the correct transcription of that data (with full diacritics) at the end of the semester…which is in 17 days…and I’ve been working on this data, writing the paper based on this data, for over two months1
“Make it Work!”
So the project is to do a phonetics field assignment on a language we’ve never studied and one that we can’t speak (meaning that: Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Spanish, French, Classical Tibetan & English are all out). I was working on Tagalog with LIW so now not only have I wasted his time (which is embarrassing, professionally unacceptable and humiliating), but now I also need to find a non-monolingual on Long Island because I have to get this project done…this week.
As far as non-monolinguals go (or non-monolinguals who also don’t speak a language that I’ve either studied or can speak) the pickings are slim…but I do have Rabbi Antosofsky (Rabbi Emeritus from my Synagogue) who speaks Aramaic (among a slew of other languages) and Shulamit, while an Israeli, her L1 is actually Romanian as is her mother’s and they’ll both be at Thanksgiving.
So I need to hunt one of them down (probably Shulamit, since she’ll be coming to my Graduation party after Thanksgiving as well as for the meal) and then I have to hunt down or re-create the culturally neutral word list I’ve been using (I did 200 utterances with Jeruen, which means I need closer to 400 since I won’t have access to the speaker again and I won’t be able to fly back down if I notice a phenomenon.
But I’m making it work, and getting it done…I don’t have time to worry about something that I don’t have the ability to get back, it’s gone, I need to get my work done, and I’ll find a way to get it done that’s academically sound and significant.
1 this isn’t even addressing how much my field kit cost…the condenser microphone – which could pick up a cat whisker trailing a piece of glass, was $90.00, the HD MiniDisc was about 499.00…I’ll vomit about that sometime after I land and can take a nice, long, hot shower.
Update: Landed, at my Grandma’s Apartment, and using my mobile phone as a modem (thank you blue tooth)…now excuse me, as I go vomit.
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance:
Nakia Ladelle Baker
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Cause of Death: Blunt force trauma to the head
Date of Death: January 7, 2007
Keittirat Longnawa
Location: Rassada, Thailand
Cause of Death: Beaten by 9 Youths who then slit her throat
Date of Death: January 31, 2007
Moira Donaire
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
Cause of Death: Stabbed 5 times by a street vendor
Date of Death: March 5, 2007
Michelle Carrasco “Chela”
Location: Santiago, Chile
Cause of Death: She was found in a pit with her face completely disfigured.
Date of Death: March 16, 2007
Ruby Rodriguez
Location: San Francisco, California
Cause of Death: She had been strangled and was found naked in the street.
Date of Death: March 16, 2007
Erica Keel
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: A car repeatedly struck her
Date of Death: March 23, 2007
Bret T. Turner
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Cause of Death: Multiple stab wounds
Date of Death: April 2, 2007
Unidentified Male Clad in Female Attire
Location: Kingston, Jamaica
Cause of Death: Gunshot wounds to the chest and lower back
Date of Death: July 7, 2007
Victoria Arellano
Location: San Pedro, California
Cause of Death: Denied necessary medications to treat HIV-related side effects.
Date of Death: July 20, 2007
Oscar Mosqueda
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Cause of Death: Shot to death
Date of Death: July 29, 2007
Maribelle Reyes
Location: Houston, Texas
Cause of Death: AIDS; Reyes was turned away from several treatment centers due to her transgender status.
Date of Death: August 30, 2007
From the Day of Remembrance Site
In Judaism we often say “through us they live” – these were someone’s brothers, sisters, friends, lovers, cousins, children: these were humans who were killed in acts of hate, violence and ignorance…they had their candles snuffed short, their life taken, their world destroyed.
They leave behind friends and lovers and family (whether it be the family they were born with, the family they made along the way, or both) all of whom will forever have a heart string ripped out of their chest, an open wound that will heal but that will still leave a scar…gone, but never forgotten.
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance:
Nakia Ladelle Baker
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Cause of Death: Blunt force trauma to the head
Date of Death: January 7, 2007
Keittirat Longnawa
Location: Rassada, Thailand
Cause of Death: Beaten by 9 Youths who then slit her throat
Date of Death: January 31, 2007
Moira Donaire
Location: Viña del Mar, Chile
Cause of Death: Stabbed 5 times by a street vendor
Date of Death: March 5, 2007
Michelle Carrasco “Chela”
Location: Santiago, Chile
Cause of Death: She was found in a pit with her face completely disfigured.
Date of Death: March 16, 2007
Ruby Rodriguez
Location: San Francisco, California
Cause of Death: She had been strangled and was found naked in the street.
Date of Death: March 16, 2007
Erica Keel
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: A car repeatedly struck her
Date of Death: March 23, 2007
Bret T. Turner
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Cause of Death: Multiple stab wounds
Date of Death: April 2, 2007
Unidentified Male Clad in Female Attire
Location: Kingston, Jamaica
Cause of Death: Gunshot wounds to the chest and lower back
Date of Death: July 7, 2007
Victoria Arellano
Location: San Pedro, California
Cause of Death: Denied necessary medications to treat HIV-related side effects.
Date of Death: July 20, 2007
Oscar Mosqueda
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Cause of Death: Shot to death
Date of Death: July 29, 2007
Maribelle Reyes
Location: Houston, Texas
Cause of Death: AIDS; Reyes was turned away from several treatment centers due to her transgender status.
Date of Death: August 30, 2007
From the Day of Remembrance Site
In Judaism we often say “through us they live” – these were someone’s brothers, sisters, friends, lovers, cousins, children: these were humans who were killed in acts of hate, violence and ignorance…they had their candles snuffed short, their life taken, their world destroyed.
They leave behind friends and lovers and family (whether it be the family they were born with, the family they made along the way, or both) all of whom will forever have a heart string ripped out of their chest, an open wound that will heal but that will still leave a scar…gone, but never forgotten.
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