Tuesday, September 10, 2013

I've lost my sense of the days of the week.

I live in this town: /fɛɹbæŋks/ which is in the State of  /ʌlæskə/

More specifically, I live in Moore Hall.  It is one of the three residential life buildings that constitute the MBS, or Moore Barlett Skarland. The problem with my dorm hall is we have a great number of people who participate in online gaming.  This means I often struggle with WiFi.  I want to stay set up in my own dorm where it's convenient, but I may be forced to find some other place.

Whenever I tell someone I'm from Boise they reply: 'Oh, you're from Boize?'  I sigh on the inside and brush it aside.

This evening I joined a worship event on campus I learned about from poster-papers posted nigh everywhere.  We sung, listened to the leader-cum-guitarist talk briefly about the being lost through the parable of the Lost Sheep and the Prodigal Son.  I talked to a girl who this last Sunday had attended for the first time a church nearby that shuttles to the campus called Bethel Church.  It's not Quaker, but she recommended it, so this Sunday I'll give it a try.  I hope and pray it'll work as I am very limited considering I have to rely on others for transportation.

I made for the third time my Facebook page.  If you haven't done so already, you can add me, s'il vous plaît.  I'll try to hold on to this one, unless I again reach the point of being too jaded of inane posts.

I'm beginning to start my capstone.  I've got a few very related ideas in my mind, but I don't know how feasible they are or how much research has been done on them.  They are all about how things affect language:  Nearby flora/fauna; level of acceptance of violence and use of diplomacy; nearby geography; kind of Spirituality; et al.  

For example, I want to know things like, Does having trees nearby make your language tend towards having softer or harder sounds?  Will a warring tribe tend towards quick rough sounds while a peaceful will tend towards graceful and gentle?  Does having pessimistic views on deities and afterlife make a people choose lower sounds like a's?

I don't know what exactly I will do.  I don't know at this point if I could even draw the conclusions I hope to establish.

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