Home wonderfully terribly sweet home
Svastik, 21/11/2008 | Svastik Unleashed
I’m such a daddy’s girl. And a momma’s girl too. I’m home and loving it.
Sunt ocupată toată ziua să nu fac nimic şi să fiu răsfăţată. Să mi se satisfacă toaaate poftele culinare. Să primesc cadouri drăguţe (parfumul *acela* şi eşarfe şi trenci şi vreo trei tone de ciocolată şi multe multe altele). Să dorm în patul meu, singură în cameră. Să downloadez (legal) chestii cu 1MB/s. Să mă penseze Anca (mâine! YAY! I cannot wait to see her, especially since she’s expecting a little baby come February or so). Să lenevesc cu pisoiul lângă mine (I totally missed the little bugger). Să ascult muzică fără căşti, ba chiar (ce dezmăţ!) la boxe date la maxim. Să merg la cumpărături şi să nu-mi fac griji de cât costă aia şi cât costă ailaltă şi oare dacă mi-o iau îmi ajung banii până la sfârşitul săptămânii fără să mor de foame?
În rest, urmăresc cu mare interes campaniile electorale ale diverselor partide, parte din necesitate (as in homework), parte din distracţie. Apropo, de ce toţi candidaţii de care ştiu eu îşi fac campanie de parcă ar candida la postul de primar? I find so inherently funny and so inherently stupid and so inherently sad at the same time. Apropo de asta, I have a dilemma, postul de city-manager există în mai multe primării din ţară sau este exclusiv apanajul Primăriei Piatra Neamţ (şi parcă şi a Clujului..sau acolo rămăsese în stadiul de proiect?)? Chiar sunt curioasă.
Şi dacă tot veni vorba de domeniul pe care cu drag şi spor îl studiez timp de şase cursuri pe săptămână, vă las cu un articolaş absolut GENIAL, by the incomparable Andy Borowitz who is an absolutely amazing blogger:
Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
Stunning Break with Last Eight YearsIn the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama’s appearance on CBS’ “Sixty Minutes” on Sunday witnessed the president-elect’s unorthodox verbal tic, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.
But Mr. Obama’s decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.
According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it “alienating” to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.
“Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement,” says Mr. Logsdon. “If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist.”
The historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete sentences in his speeches, the public may find itself saying, “Okay, subject, predicate, subject predicate - we get it, stop showing off.”
The President-elect’s stubborn insistence on using complete sentences has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
“Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can’t really do there, I think needing to do that isn’t tapping into what Americans are needing also,” she said.

