Under pressure...

leaning down on me...leaning down on you...doo doo doo doo.

hey guys.

up for another post? well ready or not, here it comes.

Couple things...

1. Yesterday, I heard a bit of a catfight while in line to get something other than the umpeenth pizza or sandwich from my school's alternative to cafeteria food.  School food is ok....as long as you don't have it every day.  Which most of us have to do.  I'm surprised the people who claim they can't eat the food here haven't tried to sue the school.  Maybe there's no suitable law they could cling to, but I heard that the school immediately caved in when a lawyer was even mentioned in this one person's claim.  

Anyway, back to the story.  Even though I'm 50% Polish, I only know a few words.  Pathetic, right?  I think so, even if you don't.  Not that it's exactly my fault.  My Polish dad doesn't speak it either, and we never really hung out with our cousins often enough to pick up more than a "czesch" or...in this case..."Jestes s'winia!"  (You're a pig!)  Of all the insults, they used one I could understand. Ha. Suckers....thinking they could get away with it just because they were speaking Polish.  See that's one of the things that kinda bugs me about some immigrants.  They use their language to their advantage and insult us Americans, under the impression that we won't understand.  Well that won't work on all of us!!! Nope.  Ah...foreign languages...that aren't so foreign anymore.  It's kinda cool how so many people are learning the basics of languages now.  Almost everyone (well at least us educated, snobby people) knows some Spanish, French, German and Italian.  Now we just have to learn Arabic and Chinese so we can stop the terrorists!

(just kidding. sorta)

2. The difference between to, two, and too for the people on Yahoo! answers that apparently don't know how to think.

To: what form of speech is this? hell if i know. but it is NOT the number and it does NOT mean "also".  essential for infinitive verb translations....such as "to swim"=nadar (in common? spanish...wow so many dialects it's INSANE!!)

Two: the number. One, TWO, three..etc.

Too:  You wanna go too?  OR, more morbidly, Will you, too, SHUT UP!?!? (just another person to shush rather than "Will you two shut up!?!? if you are trying to angrily shush 2 people at the same time)

Wow.  Apparently Gary is a bad influence on me.  As are most people.  b/c i'm an angel...yep yep!

Ok, let's go with one more.  hm.

No. I'm tired. Bye! :P

So happy...

I ACTUALLY GOT OUT OF LAB CLASS AFTER ONLY 1 HOUR!!!!!

yea. that's all folks. :P

New post

Ok, so I need to post again.

We watched Johnny Stecchino in Italian class last week and we had to write a summary and review of it for this week.  I found out that there really is no decent summary of the movie in English online, so maybe I'll have to be the one to do the translating from the Italian wiki about it to the English stub.  We're looking at sonnets now and will soon be moving on to something else...we move quickly in that class!

Biology today was interesting as usual.  We're learning about animals and evolution and it's actually rather cool.  We learned the difference between a "boy scout push-up" and a "marine pushup":  boy scount pushups are easier because the exercise is just a movement between two resting spots-one with elbows extended all the way and the other...ah i don't remember. and then marine pushups don't involve resting positions at all-the arms aren't extended at the top and at the bottom, they can't touch the ground...or something like that.

and avira antivirus protection apparently can't connect to the internet even my other applications can.  weird.

ok well i'm going to do a crossword puzzle, answer a question or two on y!a and then go to bed.

'night all! :)

hey

So it's spring!!!  Here in Chicago, it's beautiful weather...60 degrees outside; it's wonderful.  I almost went downtown yesterday, but I unfortunately suffered a mild setback when I realized I had walked down to the train line without my wallet!! ARGH!  haha.  I freaked out for a second because I thought I had lost it, but I hadn't, thank goodness.

So how does this have anything to do with education?  Well...as a matter of fact, it doesn't.

BUT, it's a nice introduction to an educational topic!  What's that, you might ask?  GRAMMAR and USAGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!!
YAY!!!!!

haha. unfortunately, I'm not kidding.  I have a quota to fill of blog entries, and they all must have SOMETHING to do with education.  I intend to do my part to educate American fools.  haha. Am I one of them? Quite possibly.  Whatever.

OK, so I'd like to begin this post (well, "the meat" of this post) with a translation of that first paragraph into Italian! (Because I can.)  Then I'll get all nit-picky and describe my failures to write in good English for the rest of it.  Then I'll call it a day.

Allora....e' primavera!!  Qua a Chicago, fa bel tempo...60 DEGREES fuori; e' stupendo.  Io stavo per andare in centro ieri, quando ho saputo che non ho portato il mio WALLET!!! Che schiffo!!!  haha.  Sono diventata ALARMED per un momento perche pensavo che l'abbia perso, ma non l'ho fatto, grazie a Dio.

Ok, so the words in caps are words I couldn't remember.  Let me go look them up at wordreference.com.  Brb.

Ok, now SUPPOSEDLY (b/c you can never be too sure)  Degrees=GRADI (oh yea, now i remember.)  Wallet= PORTAFOGLIO (lit. carries sheet...weird) and ALARMED=allarmato/a.

Va bene.

Well, change of plans.  I have to go asap, so I'll end here.  Bye! :)

new post, lol

so i've had my bf and my bff look at my blog and they like it!!! YAY!!!

and i'm supposed to write more frequently, so here's another post.

hmmm...

well while i'm thinking of something to write about, i'll go do something slightly "productive"-answer a question for someone on y!answers' homework help. that'll give me something to write about.

in the meantime, savor this tidbit:

Q: How do you pronounce this name: La-ia?

A: Ladashia.  Classic.

Got that from my friend Dan.

tt4n

ok, answered this one: 

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090321105729AA1fMVC

Q (basically): What's the difference between science and technology?

What do you think?

And now, I simply must get out of my room b/c my roommate's irritating me!!! gah, 4s.

Pretty interesting question I just answered for someone on yahoo! answers

I thought this was an interesting predicament and I managed to solve it!  My explanation needs some work, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Testing...Crossword Puzzle App

Loading crossword puzzle. One moment please.

House, Crossword Puzzles, and other Stuff

So I'm working on a crossword puzzle from my local newspaper and watching back-to-back episodes of House, M.D., arguably one of the better TV series today.  I figured I could fill you all in on the random, possibly useless information I've learned.

1.  I found out about the TV show "The Facts of Life", a series that aired from 1979 to 1988.  Supposedly there are now DVDs of the episodes.  More info at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facts_of_Life_(TV_series)

2.  I finally found out that the Taj Mahal was not a wedding present but rather a memorial and mausoleum.  More info at:

http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/taj_nav/main_tajfrm.html

3. "numbers pro", 3 letters may be "CPA": Certified Public Accountant

There's an American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; their website is http://www.aicpa.org/

4.  Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) wrote "The Highwayman"

Website to check out: "Poem of the Week"

(this specific link is to the poem "The Highwayman")

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw85.html

There's more, but I'm bored.

Oh, and by the way, there a bunch of great websites that can help you out with crossword puzzles.  The one I generally use is OneAcross.com.

Update! LOL

So it's now March 2, almost a month since I last posted.  Sorry.  I'll try to be a little more frequent about posting.  Sometimes I just don't know what to say though! LOL.  This is a shout-out to whoever's following my blog...I am still alive and well!! haha.  Later.  P.S.  I'm trying to work out the mobile text-put on blog-automatic-ocity feature that blogger has...so hopefully that will seriously increase the number of posts I do here! :)

Oh & another technological detail: my boyfriend just introduced me to the Google Chrome internet browser.  It is AWESOME!  My only complaint is that sometimes the tabs get confused and become seperate windows.  I have to figure out how to avoid that.  It's sort of annoying.

An actually educational note is that my italian friend and I plan on starting an online English-Italian school...it's just in the beginning phases though, so we really don't know exactly what it's going to be like.  It should be exciting though! Let me know if you want to be involved! :)