The Problem with Poplers.
Figures. In four hours I have a meeting with my advisor for my thesis and I am just now sitting down and figuring out what it is that I am going to say to him today. What exactly will my project be about? Which is silly, I know what the project will be about. I am hoping to construct a small database of linguistic data, locate certain formulaic patterns in it and then compare these patterns and see if they support the notion that formulaic sequences have a specific and set phonological patterns as is suggested by previous research. Originally, I had intended on doing this via methods of critical dicsourse analysis, but now I think that I may use a combination of native-speaker intuition and critical discourse analytical methods.
I am sitting in a computer lab on campus right; I was the first one in the lab this morning. And, let me tell you, its been amusing watching all these people come in and fiddle around with the mice trying to wake up computers that are turned off. What is even funnier is the number of people that have fiddled with mice and then just left lab because they couldn't find a "working computer". (Okay, so it was only one person that did that. But, its still funny.)
So, if I do a combination of one and the other than I have to have my data sorted out before I head home for vacation because my access to native speakers of American English are quite limited here in the UK. Go figure on that one. Anyway, this thesis writing business is hard work. Or maybe it just seems that way because I don't know where to focus yet because I haven't seen my advisor. Or maybe I'm just nevous that he's going to think I'm an idiot because by now he's at least looked at my coursework from last semester even if he hasn't graded it. Oh my, oh my.
In other news, John and I found a lovely one bedroom apartment that is opposite the park. We get the keys to it on Friday. Do you believe that? Its a cute little place. Also, yesterday we went to the christening of John's friend Chapman's daughter. She's a real cutie. Plus, I got to meet more of John's cool friends (they contrast with John's not-cool acquaintances that I see rather frequently.)
