this thing* in PHX +

*(thing = "Her Secret is Patience", by Janet Ehelman) info

i REALLY must know....

I must know: What is the relationship between being empathetic & being polite?

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This really does raise some serious questions...

History of _______

Documentaries on history, religion, and basically displacement/shifts of people and the like have been all that has interested me outside the realm of fútbol (and randomly, poker) lately. Google video has plenty of them around an hour long... here are some of my favorites:

History of Europe: The Ancient Islamic World - http://ow.ly/3cZIE

History of God - http://ow.ly/3cZIV

Art, Sociology: "Brazil & its Music" - http://ow.ly/3cZJv

China: Ancient civilizations of China - http://ow.ly/3cZM9

Welcome to North Korea - http://ow.ly/3cZA9

The Japanese Knights (Samurai) - http://ow.ly/3cZPx

When the Moors Ruled in Spain - http://ow.ly/3cZSt

Britain AD

1 - King Arthur's Britain - http://ow.ly/3cZKd

2 - The Invasion That Never Was - http://ow.ly/3cZKr

3 - The Not So Dark Ages - http://ow.ly/3cZLi

Barbarians...

The ('primitive') Celts - http://ow.ly/3cZEC

The ('savage') Goths - http://ow.ly/3cZF0

The Mongols - http://ow.ly/3cZFB

The Vikings - http://ow.ly/3cZFO

The Huns - http://ow.ly/3cZGa

The Franks - http://ow.ly/3cZH1

The Vandals - http://ow.ly/3cZIa

"The Brainy Barbarians" (Greeks & Persians) - http://ow.ly/3cZQU

Barbarians: "The end of the world" - http://ow.ly/3cZHm

Thanks Google Video!!!

possible summer route for thesis data collection

1. Fly Round trip PHX to SEA (Delta, found on Kayak), May 11 - June 1: $279

---21 days in the NW, then back to the desert

2. Bus Phoenix thru Central America to Panama, June 1 - August 3: $1200 (@ $20/day)

---60-day bus trip (Map: http://ow.ly/39bxU)

(tentative) Cities of Data...

• Mexico - Chihuahua, Monterrey, Guadalajara, DF, Oaxaca, Mérida
• Belize - Belize City
• Guatemala - Guatemala
• El Salvador - San Salvador, San Miguel
• Honduras - Tegucigalpa
• Nicaragua - Matagalpa, Managua
• Costa Rica - San Jose
• Panama - Panama

3. Fly One-way PTY (Panama City) to MIA (FLL, Fort Lauderdale, Spirit), August 3: $190

---Direct flight from Panama to Miami, back in the US!

4. Fly Multi-city MIA to SEA (August 3) to PHX (August 10) (Delta, found on Kayak): $296

---(same day as PTY flight) Miami to the NW, 7 days at home, then to Tempe for analysis!

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~ $ 2 , 0 0 0

solo shmokin

fall 2010 semester projects, crunch time

Spanish Language in America: Puerto Rican Spanish, relation between Sociolinguistic variables & consonant neutralization of /r/ and /l/ in syllable-final position.

Spanish Pragmatics: Establishing of power and the struggle to build/maintain rapport in Spain's El Diario de Patricia. Discourse analysis + Speech Acts.

Linguistics Research Methods: The effects and potential of CMC/social networking on L2 acquisition; specifically Twitter and it's informal, open topic, "whatever" context and how that can enhance language aptitude and motivation in general. (Although only a proposal is necessary for that class, I am considering using it for a real project... I have barely any SLA knowledge, so I'm not quite sure yet.)

O meu português vai bem! Ja não é portunhol :-)

Ma français est une merde :-/