I am setting out on the final reading!push of Princess Arjumand Draft 1, Chapter 2 (to be followed by a nap - hopefully longer than the one I just TRIED to take, boo - and then the final writing!push). By the time I am finished, I will (uh, hopefully) have finished in three days, hazardous amounts of Red Bull, a polyphasic sleep schedule, many, many hours of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major on repeat,
Maybe this is karmic redressment for the wailing and rending of garments / library shenanigans / drifts of paper everywhere that accompanied Ch.1? Whatever, I'm not complaining.
Anyway, my point was: COMMENT SPAM. Quick, before I decide not to push my luck and delete my LJ again until everything is handed in! Pretty pictures! Rants! Drabbles! Retarded youtube clips of babies and cats! GO.
Ho hum.
Now I'm writing about phonological changes and reductions in the Latin vowel system, except I keep checking back and misreading /o/ as me having mistakenly lol'd italicised...ly (italically?) in my linguistics essay.
Getting hopped up on caffeine and learning how to decline nouns is way more fun than I thought it would be.
BRING IT.
1An explanation of the loss of Latin2 case endings w/r/t nouns and adjectives in the evolution of Spanish.
2WHICH I DON'T SPEAK.