reading a book in the Bungehuis
Watching unplanned television has to come to an end. That is why I set my VCR for all the programmes I want to watch, and I bought a TV guide (VPRO) to check out the programmes I want to watch. So from now on I’ll only watch video (and of course DVD).
I watched the complete first season of Twin Peaks again, so now I’m ready for the newly bought second season. Tonight I’m first going to watch Gilmore Girls though (taped from yesterday). Chris has left Lorelei and her father’s having a heart attack.
What will happen next?
Today I have been working on my thesis all day. My supervisor sent me an email with a reference to check out. I didn’t have to do this, but I had some time left anyway. It may even lead to a higher mark. This book was, unfortunately, not available in the VU library. This meant that I had to go to the reading room in the Bungehuis, which is the languages library of the “other” university in Amsterdam. This book is fantastic. It is a grammar of over 1000 pages, and it is complete based on a spoken and written corpus of English. It also gives word counts of various words and categories of words. I took some data regarding the incidence of the word I and also other pronouns, adverb, and coordinating connectives. This information will be incorporated in my thesis as a benchmark to compare my own data on Online Diaries to.
The atmosphere in the Bungehuis reading room is also quite relaxing. I might even go there more often. Sundays the reading room in the main UVA library building is supposed to be open too. I’ll check it out. If it rains on a Sunday, this might be the only option. If it doesn’t rain I’ll take a walk in the Amsterdam forest.
Funny thing. The word lax. What does it mean? I was thinking it might have been short for relaxing, or saxophone. Or maybe a typo? Or another unknown or made up abbreviation?
My supervisor comes from America, and he knew the answer. It means lacrosse! Why didn’t I think of that! So that did change my analysis of one piece of writing.
Hey, dont feel bad, I come from america and it took me awhile to figure out the ‘cross’. For the longest time I thought that a lot of people had an unnaturally high opinion of Los Angeles international airport, judging by the number of LAX stickers that I saw on cars. -not exactly random, more like lurking-
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Lax means not strict. A lax grader on a math test, for instance, might not take off as much points for a problem if you do the problem right but slip up and get the wrong answer. Then there’s the strict grader, who gives you ZERO points for the entire problem because your hand-writing doesn’t live up to his ridiculous standards.
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Some day I’m going to start reading entries in their entirety before I leave a note. I swear, I’ve got some kind of ridiculous tunnel vision.
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