I hope I don't kill myself this semester. I missed the Honors presentation today. It was the clothing one. I thought it was the résumé one.
I ended up going to the Math/CS presentation today. The good news if I should now have half my points for my scholarship for this semester. I gave myself a clean slate for the semester. I need to be active.
It looks good on my record. ![]()
The UNIX assignment I have due Friday is driving me bonkers. I'll work on it later. It may not be right when I turn it in, but I'm working on it. We'll have one more assignment in the UNIX portion of the class before we move onto PHP. I worked on the homework for about an hour today.
Film class was long. We watched two films: Nanook of the North and Sherlock, Jr. French Stewart kept popping into my mind as Buster Keaton was on the screen. I worked a bit on the paper for the class, too, today. I wrote about 3 handwritten pages as I was at the laundromat.
Yes, the laundromat is what I said. The dryer at home is dead. The repairman won't be able to come to the house until Monday morning.
I washed my clothes the other day but I didn't know the dryer wasn't drying. My clothes never got dry. So, between classes today, I had to do my laundry. The good thing is the next time I need to wash clothes, the dryer should be fixed. It was an interesting time at the laundromat. I think the owner is an older Vietnamese woman. She was Asian, that's for sure, and she spoke a language that wasn't Chinese. It didn't sound like Chinses, or at least the dialect spoken by the Chinese professors in the IT department. I think she was Catholic, too. There was a Sacret Hreat Virgin Mary picture hanging up in the place. My mother would have liked seeing that. It was a nice laundromat and wasn't far from school.
[♪ Listening to: "Head Over Feet" - Alanis Morissette]
Posted by Shawn at September 13, 2006 9:29 PM in General, Schooling.
I usually do some reading while doing the laundry, unless it's November. Then I'm writing like mad.
Chinese dialects, particularly the 3 major ones I know of--Mandarin (mainland China), Cantonese (Canton province, Hong Kong), and Hakka (Taiwan)--all have very similar inflections so unless you are fluent in at least one of these dialects, for a non-speaker they can be very hard to tell apart. Vietnamese, on the other hand, is definitely different. I think of the vowels as being more angular. (I know all of this because my parents are fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese and my mom is currently trying to learn Hakka.)
Posted by: sya at September 14, 2006 12:52 AM

