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Various thoughts on this Monday morning.
Mar. 6th, 2006 12:09 pmAnd it is morning, at least at the time I've started writiing this. It's 11:55am. So there.
Meh, Oscars. I liked Jon Stewart. That's about all I can say about it. I ate pizza and played video games with the Oscars in the background. I'd only seen a couple of movies that were nominated, so, no big, ( except... )
So I did very little this weekend, for once. It was lovely. Stayed up 'till obscene hours of the night, slept in 'till four on Saturday, which was glorious.
Despite only getting five hours of sleep last night, I feel fairly well rested.
In health news, my lips appear to be back to normal and I no longer have a rash on my feet. I haven't taken my steroid inhaler for a week now, and have limited my use of my regular inhaler. I haven't taken that since Thursday. (When I took it twice. :P) Still a little wheezy and out of breath at times, but I'll live.
Today, class. I have to leave in half an hour. I also need to dry my hair, since I took a (very rare, for me) morning shower today, rather than a night shower last night.
Tonight, no idea. May or may not watch The L Word, may or may not watch How I Met Your Mother. Would like to watch The Apprentice... But I have an Italian composition for tomorrow, so I'll probably, you know, do that instead. ;)
Randomly, I've been wondering lately about language. When does an acronym stop representing a group of words and become a word itself? And when does a shortened word stop representing the longer word and become acceptable?
Example: IRS, FBI, CIA, RCMP. These all stand for various organizations, but their acronyms are, no doubt, much more popular than "Internal Revenue Service", "Federal Bureau of Investigation", "Central Intelligence Agency" and "Royal Canadian Mounted Police". Can the acronyms actually replace what they stand for? Have they already done so?
And what about netspeak? "LOL" and "ROFL" -- they don't even really represent "laughing out loud" or "rolling on the floor laughing" anymore, do they? Now they just mean "Haha, that's funny". In today's cyberspacial society, where is the line drawn between representation of meaning and meaning itself?
Food for thought. And now that it's 12:08pm, I have GOT to dry my hair.
Meh, Oscars. I liked Jon Stewart. That's about all I can say about it. I ate pizza and played video games with the Oscars in the background. I'd only seen a couple of movies that were nominated, so, no big, ( except... )
So I did very little this weekend, for once. It was lovely. Stayed up 'till obscene hours of the night, slept in 'till four on Saturday, which was glorious.
Despite only getting five hours of sleep last night, I feel fairly well rested.
In health news, my lips appear to be back to normal and I no longer have a rash on my feet. I haven't taken my steroid inhaler for a week now, and have limited my use of my regular inhaler. I haven't taken that since Thursday. (When I took it twice. :P) Still a little wheezy and out of breath at times, but I'll live.
Today, class. I have to leave in half an hour. I also need to dry my hair, since I took a (very rare, for me) morning shower today, rather than a night shower last night.
Tonight, no idea. May or may not watch The L Word, may or may not watch How I Met Your Mother. Would like to watch The Apprentice... But I have an Italian composition for tomorrow, so I'll probably, you know, do that instead. ;)
Randomly, I've been wondering lately about language. When does an acronym stop representing a group of words and become a word itself? And when does a shortened word stop representing the longer word and become acceptable?
Example: IRS, FBI, CIA, RCMP. These all stand for various organizations, but their acronyms are, no doubt, much more popular than "Internal Revenue Service", "Federal Bureau of Investigation", "Central Intelligence Agency" and "Royal Canadian Mounted Police". Can the acronyms actually replace what they stand for? Have they already done so?
And what about netspeak? "LOL" and "ROFL" -- they don't even really represent "laughing out loud" or "rolling on the floor laughing" anymore, do they? Now they just mean "Haha, that's funny". In today's cyberspacial society, where is the line drawn between representation of meaning and meaning itself?
Food for thought. And now that it's 12:08pm, I have GOT to dry my hair.
