I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird!

This post perfectly describes how I felt at the end of the workday today, minus the bird:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/05/sneaky-hate-spiral.html

(Both from hyperboleandahalf, obviously)

Chrisisms

Since Chris always seems to be making me laugh/feel delight because of his sayings, I'm dubbing his sayings "chrisisms"

Latest and greatest: Clearly a lack of sleep was involved, and possibly a lack of wearing glasses, but not lacking his sense of humour. This is a Facebook comment made about some sushi he and I made (can you guess which side is mine? it's the side with most of the white ones).

Friend: That looks really good. Is that fish eggs??

Chris: Heh, I wish. Any idea where to get some? (on my part), but it'll be a day or so before it's posted.

I'm not even sure what to do with this one! It's two, maybe even three sentences that just decided to hang out way too close together, and even after they realised they were too close, they just decided to go with it and morphed into that beautiful gem :)

I hope everyone knows that these "chrisisms" are not meant to be judgmental, I'm actually quite delighted with Chris' language use and this is only an observe and report kind of deal. Recordings for posterity, I suppose, because sometimes I tend to forget things so if I don't save them now they might be lost to me.

Anyway, I had a long day at work so that's all for now :)

I'll go crawling back to the city I love, because it's already taken everything

I'm so excited! I have three official destination plans for this summer already, where the last few summers I've just stayed in the city for work/school.


Next weekend: Regina Beach (S.K.) with my boyfriend/a few friends

Late May: Toronto (ON) with my sister for a wedding

Late July: Quadra Island (B.C.) for a family reunion


It's so sweet, now put the train in gear.

Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me

I just got an email confirmation that my honours paper is officially done forever! Done forever! Done forever! I think I'll miss working on it.

So what will my next challenge be? I have to do something.

On a side note, as a celebration I totally broke translation party:

Before you get any crazy ideas about where that phrase came from, it's the title of a short story in a Bruce Coville book I read when I was younger!

WHY have I not found this before?

This is kind of amazing, please check it out! http://translationparty.com/

You take any English phrase, plug it in, and it tranlates it to Japanese, then back to English, then back to Japanese, and back and forth until it finds an equilibrium. I know you will have fun! See below for my favourite ones I've found so far (click for larger image):

Interestingly, punctuation seems to affect the outcome.