Thanksgiving

This is baloney. What I want to do is automatically make a list of names with themed meanings and three-word strings from different themed word lists. I would like lemma and part of speech considered. I would like this done automatically. I would like phrases to be be part of word lists and taken apart when needed. I would like to build word lists from synonyms if one word is not found within that theme.

I try to look for tools to make this easier. They are often for one format, one purpose, only available online, and cannot communicate with others. There are permutation applications, but the user would have to provide their own word lists, and cannot get them from a link. Not even getting into cost and if the application is worth it.

Then again, I am told that I put in so much detail and spend so much time thinking about things, that people get so confused. Thus, they do not help, and I have to spend more time working on things alone, and it gets further.

Suffragist pwnage

See, I followed a link from some historical comics to one-minute movies on Canadian history and I just kept watching them. I feel kinda dumb, but I didn't know it took a lot of work and deal-making to get Canada all nice and stuff.

I could cheat and include housemates' games. However, I will not.

( Games people play and such )

Thursday: Went to a party in honor of a recently married couple with a friend. She could see the back ache and the rushing around and the lack of sleep was getting to me. Nevertheless, I had a good time. I ended up playing around and talking with a five-year-old girl.

Girl: I read at a fifth grade level.
Me: Cool, I read at a twelfth grade level at age 12.
Girl: Well, of course you could. Twelve year olds read at twelfth grade level.
Me: Well, it doesn't really work like that.

I also yodeled and drank more red wine than I usually do.

Friday: Red eyes, cough, sweating. It felt more like a cold than a hangover. I was sick, and called in. Dammit, I was hoping to not have sick days until June. I managed to get enough sleep to be well enough for my interview.

It seemed to go well. At one point though, one of the interviewers (the French search editor) asked how I would do in a 'merchantil' environment. Or so I heard. It turns out he said 'multicultural.' Now, I am wondering if I misperceived that. Even accounting for the accent, it seems to be far from how the word is pronounced. I may have expected something related to business, and got the word jumbled up. Or perhaps the phonemes somehow changed into other somewhat similar phonemes in my head.

He also asked for writing I have done. I gave him this address and my writing website. So, er, hi there. I hope all this doesn't make me a bad employee. For one, I do not talk about trade secrets. The cussing--I don't do that in an office, either.

I missed the last bus, however, and took a cab. Yeah, I know that was a bad idea, but my mom was sick, I wasn't going to go on the train for an hour or so, and I was not sure if my sister was able to pick me up. I have got to get a license.

I am getting more of the final paper done than I thought, though it still needs to be finished. I am not wholely digging it, but I am okay. I will need to pay attention to my phonetics final exam. Whee.