So if you didn't know, and I won't be offended if you didn't, I'm a TESOL minor! Aka teaching english as a second langage. So I'm taking this classes called Intro to the English Language and below is a legimate assignment. Enjoy. This is Sydney Walton.
Friends often joke that my roommate
Sydney speaks a different language. After thoughtful consideration and learning
about the ways that English words form, I have come to the conclusion that she
is indeed speaking English; Sydney is so far advanced that she has crossed a
threshold and is merely coming up with new words to contribute to the greater English language. First she started with the simple
abbreviation, or in her mind, abbrev. By clipping a word it becomes shorter and
easier to say. Sydney hind clipped the word “perfect” and now instead utilizes “perf.” Additionally, “totally” was much too inconvenient to use on a
regular basis and now has been replaced by the word “totes” by applying the
same hind clipping. “Obvi” integrates these same ideas, stemming from the
word “obviously.” A particularly advanced word in
Sydney’s vocabulary is “cray cray” because it utilizes two different types,
shortening and then reduplication. First she hind clips the word “crazy” to
become “cray” and then reduplicates and it becomes “cray cray.” To describe boys that she has
feelings of infatuation for, Sydney calls them her “crushy.” By employing
backformation, she took the noun “crush” as in ‘I have a crush on him’ and
added the suffix “y” to make another noun, this one describing the person, not
the emotion. By hind clipping and then combining, the word “jellyfish” was
created, but not referring to the sea creature. First it was the word “jealous”
which was then hind clipped to become “jelly” which then was put in front
of “fish” to create the final product. Correspondingly, “fun” became “funnel cakes” but skipped the clipping step. "Zerts” is a word that describes any food eaten before or after
the designated meal. The word “appetizer” was fore clipped, giving us “zer.”
The word “dssert” was hind clipped, leaving us with “sert.” By combining these
two, we have “zerts.” Lastly, if our date with our “crushy” to go get “zerts” goes well
enough to make our roommates “jellyfish” it is time to have a “DTR.” This
stands for ‘Define the Relationship.’ However, it is an acronym because it is
pronounced /ditur/. As her vocabulary continues to expand I would hope that those who assume abbreviations are associated with unintellingence, would think twice.
Yes, I shared this video as apart of my presentation. Oh and yes. I got an A.
Yesterday was the lovely Nicole's twentieth birthday! Birthdays are so weird here at school. We made cinnamon rolls for her and then we all had class all day which was kinda too bad. We went to Texas Roadhouse which always makes me nostalgic and then we had people over for dessert after. Holy cow y'all we are full on regular hostesses. This was our fourth party in the past week and a half?!? I think we're getting the hang of it.... slash everytime we're like okay this is the last time!! Mostly becuase our other roommates get annoyed but c'est la vie!
I'm so happy to be living with Nicole. She is sweet and happy and fun and kind.
But are there?! Provo is such a weird place... with married couples frolicking around and desperate to get married girlys and overeager RMs and the ones that are too cool for it all anyways. And then there are the few normal outliers.
Also I think this blog is hilarious but I can't decide if I agree with THIS post. Thoughts?
Sydney and I have always talked about throwing a party for all of our Texas friends that are up here at BYU with us. Now that we have an apartment to throw it in, and especially now that I've moved to Washington we decided to do it last night!
What a blast to see so many pals from home! It was our third event to host this month. It's fun to have a place to have people to come over to and play hostess. The Texas cookies DID NOT work out. But it was a fun night.
Sydney and I made dinner the other night for her brother Peter and his roommate Ryan. Now that we're living in Domesticity Central (aka south of campus Provo) we are just filled with this desire to cook and clean and do laundry all the time. It's so weird! And so totally not true but I wish it was.
We had really tasty green salsa crockpot chicken tacos with Mexican rice and homemade guacamole and sliced peaches. And it was tasty tasty. Granted that's the only "meal" I've made for myself all week but whatever.
Also you may have thought that you knew every Coldplay song that exists but look here is one that you probably don't know.
"schlubbin" is a term used by my funny friends Brooke & Avery. Its kinda like lounging but sloppier. It involves snacks and maybe some hulu and/or netflix and staying in bed for a long time.
I sclubbed hard both Friday and Saturday. IT WAS GREAT. After recovering from an all nighter and a week crammed full of homework I deemed it appropriate and necessary. Plus I don't even have class on Fridays! So I slept in late late late and finally finished unpacking all of my boxes so my desk is finally usable and just did a lot of productive things that didn't require me to leave my apartment until I went grocery shopping with Jen at 4:30!
On Saturday that fun just continued with sleeping in late (again)
going to my most favorite shaved ice place ever
laying out so we don't get Provo Pale
and watching the game with some of my favorite girls at the Ashton's house! And I got to see one of my other favorite married couples: the Stapletons. It was great.
I also watched White Collar and does anyone watch "Suits" because I can't decide how I feel about it and lots of youtube videos and basically have yet to do any schoolwork since Thursday night. It's great.
With every week that goes by I think wow that was the most stressful, busiest week of my whole life! And then the next week comes and somehow tops it. This week...
Sydney and I went to the cannon with our cute freshman boy space friends and I literally gained two pounds. That is not an exaggeration, that is a fact. It was fun to go and reminisce and two freshman boys asked for my number LOL it was like wait why didn't this happen to me last year? But in all honesty it was a good reminder how nice it is to be able to eat what I want when I want to eat it. Yay apartment life.
I LOVE MY JOB. Kind of want to redo my whole life plan and become a librarian? Well actually not really but I like being one right now. My boss is really sweet and the hours are flexible and it's a lot of independent work which is nice.
School really gets in the way of college, ya know?? I really like all my classes but they're also really hard. And require emotional eating and also "i need to stay awake until i finish this" eating. Hence the above picture.
Hahaha I hope this picture accurately represents the desperation that I felt at 5:30am when I took it. Still awake doing homework. So ugly but so funny.
I saw this snail when I was walking into work and it really made miss Washington. Also I don't think I ever really told anyone this but this summer I accidentally sat on a snail and crushed the shell and it's bodily innards got all over my pants. So for the rest of my life I'll feel this weird bond with snails.
Also in other "me doing weird things" news, one time last fall in class I hit my funny bone weirdly on the desk and I fainted. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Not sure if I actually like this song, or if I just like someone singing my name. I think both.
Yes y'all, I've reformatted my blog like six times this week. THIS IS STAYING. I think. I had a really terrific and also really busy weekend. Slash and entire week. I went to the football game (go cougs) and to a birthday party and two concerts and went on a few dates and and did multiple relief society projects and read a book and wrote a paper and went to lots of meetings and had my first day of work and had the joy of getting packages and wrote missionary letters and chatted with my mom and kate riding and my bestie hannah and had Sunday dinner at my grandparents and took only one nap! The whole week!
My favorite part of this video is the condescending look from the girl in the middle. Enjoy.
This past week has been completely crazy. And hectic. And stressful. But you know what? I'm happiest when I'm being productive. And after four months of lounging around with my family with little to no responsibility or daily structure, I finally feel like my life is normal again.
It's really great to be back in Provo. Its nice to have friends again. I love all of my classes. I got a job! I work at the Law library. Pretty exciting. I have a time consuming calling. I'm happy and busy and life is good!
