Whoa

[summercomfort]

Oh man, my sense of time's completely shot to pieces. I remember marking the 18th. But then things started getting a little hazy as my "days" increasingly became "nights" that spanned 2 days... Long story short, I was kindly informed by the airport customer service person that today is in fact Wednesday the 21st, and my flight leaves on the 22nd, which is tomorrow. And I was like "whoa now". So I sat down, ate an apple. And an orange, and let my nerves settle (okay, more like after the adrenaline rush and the bumpy bus ride I needed my stomach to settle). And now I'm back, and it's like I magically gained a day! *And* I'm all packed!

Only problem is, I've tossed out *all* the perishable food in the refrigerator*, and I really don't want to go buy new food and go through all that again tonight. So my choices are:
1) eat ramen and hot dogs today. Maybe frozen spinach
2) go shopping, but purchase *carefully* so that the only thing in the trash will be non-perishable items
3) eat out.

Now, most of you know that most of last quarter was spent eating out**, so I'm quite sick and tired of eating out. Unless it's really really good, homey Chinese food, which Hyde Park is not famous for. I've also spent pretty much the last week eating ramen, hot dogs, and other unhealthy stuff, so I'm really not inclined to do that again. Which leaves *careful* food plottings.

In any case, I have an extra day, and I'm still a little full from eating all the leftovers at 5 this morning and trying to drink all the milk, so I've got a while to ponder this!

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* Whoa, I just realized that fridge has a d, but refrigerator doesn't! O. M. G. No wonder I can never spell it right!
** Even if that means Hutch or Uncle Joe's

Comments

[theosakakoneko.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


that is all.

[summercomfort]

XD You laugh at my pain? XDD

[satyreyes.livejournal.com]

Similarly, "barbecue" is spelled thusly, while BBQ is spelled with a Q. If you see someone spelling it "barbeque," please, please slap them upside the head for me. You see, I am a trained linguist, conditioned to accept all linguistic usages no matter how outrageous, but I make an exception for "barbeque."

[summercomfort]

okay, so BBQ I can understand, b/c Q sounds like cue. But where did the d in fridge come from? Does it sound colder with the d in it or something? ::ponders an alternate universe where we put things in the frige:: Oh wait, maybe that's why? frig and frige don't sound like fridge. In order to make it sound right, you have to pull out the "rhymes with bridge" thing.

[satyreyes.livejournal.com]

That's exactly right. Now you're thinking like a linguist :) Bonus question: Why do people pronounce February "Febuary?"

[summercomfort]

umm... because the ooo-aay sound is in the front part of the mouth, whereas the r requires a retreat of the tongue, and so we get lazy after the labial-based b?

[philena.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much the vowels have to do with it. Ooo is actually made very far back in the mouth, and requires rounded lips, which the English r requires also. (Chinese r doesn't, though.) Articulatorily they have more in common than b and y (which is the sound between the b and the u in the standard pronunciation.) I suspect it's more to do with the fact that the r after the b is hard to say when it's so quickly followed by another r after the a. I have a hard time saying words like "mirror" and "rarely", so the proximity of the r's could be what's causing the laziness, rather than any quality in the b.

[satyreyes.livejournal.com]

I like your explanation :) But the textbooks all say it's because we want it to sound like "January," and I agree.

[summercomfort]

ah, that makes sense. See, problem is, I *do* pronounce the r when I say February. ("put the 'brr' back in February," as the mneumonic goes.) So I don't really get it.

[philena.livejournal.com]

Yay! You're going home. Good luck eating--I have every faith in you. Remember, you have just recently made a culinary masterpiece from frozen vegetables.

Mail the letters before you go? *eyelashes bat bat* The bills are due before we get back.

[summercomfort]

No worries, m'dear. Have mailed them yesterday. :D

[lalainyourface.livejournal.com]

food...
You should get those frozen chong you bing and other frozen stuff. Then cook the frozen stuff, adding your own flavoring and stuff.

yeah...