Infinite Midsummer

[kyrasantae]

I hate bonfires and fireworks; human production of heat entropy for entertainment eats at me, for some reason.
Fortunately, fireworks season is over for the time being.

As of yesterday, I'm officially in Honors Linguistics!!!!! :DDDDD
I also had a straight A+ spring session (Phonetics and Second-Language Acquisition)!! :D
Please be excited for me rather than worrying about whether history is going to repeat itself yet again (i.e. I drop out of the program). Thanks. Your optimism is appreciated.

DLS adds: "Congratulations. You found the true path of the linguist. You're officially cool now. You will receive the official papers with stamps and signatures of the coolness crew shortly."


It also turns out that aside from my thesis courses, I'll only need to take one linguistics elective (and fine arts elective: choir) in my final year. Which leaves me plenty of time to work on that thesis thing.


How to make and lose a friend in seven days: spend a 2.5 hour road trip with them on a day when you've forgotten to take your anxiety medication and thus are incredibly emo.

The following is the "Epic Shenanigans!" shuffle-playlist I made for that trip. It's quite intense with a couple of sillier songs. I guess that says something about me.

1. Apocalyptica - Somewhere Around Nothing
   
2. Apulanta - Hiekka
   
3. Apulanta - Koneeseen kadonnut
   
4. Apulanta - Vasten mun kasvojani
   
5. Jore Marjaranta - Haaveet kaatuu
   
6. Kotiteollisuus - Minä olen
   
7. Kotiteollisuus - Varjonkukka
   
8. Kotiteollisuus - Vieraan sanomaa
   
9. Maija Vilkkumaa - Peltirumpu (Sielun Veljet cover)
   
10. Maj Karma - Ukkonen
    
11. Mikko Kuustonen - Ainoain
    
12. Olavi Uusivirta - Raivo härkä
    
13. Pate Mustajärvi - Köyhän miehen Peace and Love
    
14. Pate Mustajärvi - Nahkurin orret
    
15. The Rasmus - In the Shadows
    
16. Sõpruse Puiestee - 1905
    
17. Sõpruse Puiestee - Aknajuuli
    
18. Sõpruse Puiestee - Kaotaja-2
    
19. Tehosekoitin - Hetken tie on kevyt
    
20. Tenhi - Hallavedet
    
21. Timo Rautiainen - Bacchuksen tiellä
    
22. Timo Rautiainen - Kylätie / Outolintu
    
23. Timo Rautiainen - Pohjoisen taivaan alla (Leevi & The Leavings cover)
    
24. Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Kuusikymmentäkaksi
    
25. Tommi Läntinen - Se on rock
    
26. Uniklubi - Koko talvi kesämökillä (Leevi & The Leavings cover)
    
27. Viikate - Haaksirikkoiset
    
28. Viikate - Korkeat kotkain tiet -twist
    
29. Viikate - Korutonta
    
30. Viikate - Kuolleen miehen kupletti
    
31. Viikate - Kuu kaakon yllä
    
32. Viikate - Luomet lyijyä painaa
    
33. Viikate - Mintun ja Vernerin häävalssi
    
34. Viikate - Pohjoista Viljaa
    
35. Viikate - Uurastaja
    
36. Viikate - Varjoista
    
37. Viikate - Viina, terva ja hauta
    
38. Ville Tuomi - Nocturne
    
39. Yö - Muistoja
    
40. Yö - Niin paljon me teihin luotettiin (2002 remix)

My printer gave up its ghost this morning. It gave me a print head error so I soaked the head in isopropanol, which cleaned it mighty good, but didn't fix the error any. It'd cost more to replace the part than it would be to buy a new printer. I've had this printer since I started university, and I'm surprised that it's lasted this long, anyway. I still have one sealed, new set of inks for it though. Maybe I can sell them on kijiji or something.


I started reading Infinite Jest yesterday. I'm only about 50 pages in but I'm infinitely enjoying it so far. I think this makes me a pretentious bookworm.


Given how many people have recorded piano arrangements of the original Trine theme music, I'm surprised that the Trine 2 theme music, having been released in mid-April, still has no piano covers but my own, made three weeks ago.

"I've never heard 'weather pending' before. It sounds like you ordered some from Amazon and it's on a 7-day delivery." —shellynoir (about the very interesting memo taped to my door)


I ordered the textbook for my English syntax course a couple of days after I ordered Infinite Jest from the same webshop. Obviously the novel made it, but the textbook got held up by the postal workers' strike. The posties have been back to work for a week and I haven't gotten any mail all week. It's as though the postwoman is still on strike or something (not actually; my neighbours are getting their mail, uh, post).


I have throwing knives. They're actually sharp pointy objects, as opposed to most knives, which are sharp but not necessarily pointy. Sadly, I don't have anywhere to safely and discreetly practice with them around here unless I head over to the river valley or something and that's kind of sketch. At the not-so-secret-Finnish-camp, though, I can at least plonk the walls of the wood shed with impunity.

Comments

[nord-licht.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was just wondering what you were transferring to. So, I one more year to go?
PS Congrats with getting thsi year out of the way! If you feel that you found your passion, then there is no need to worry :)!

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Twoooooooooooo years! :o


Re. optimism: There will, sadly, always be those who are so set in their pessimism that no amount of evidence pointing toward a positive result/tendency will convince them. Yet aiming to prove them wrong is counterproductive.