Okay, so I’m a dork and probably should have become a linguist or something, but I’ve been watching (and have become mildly obsessed with) a BBC program called “The Adventure of English”. It’s a program chronicling the changes and effects of English on the world, and the effects of the world on English. It’s astounding how much the various accents and dialects have changed with the advent of mass communication. I actually found it kind of sad – it’s upsetting to think that some delicious Scottish accent is being dumbed down and smoothed out to sound more American just because of the number of movies and television shows coming from that country. 
Programs like this one make me wish for a Brigadoon in every country.
All that aside, I wish that this program was a course offered at a local college/university. I’ve been looking at courses to take, to fill up some of my time and get the hell out of my apartment, and haven’t found anything I’m interested in enough to spend $300-$600 on yet. For THIS program though, I would gladly spend the money AND write essays (although, the exams might take some of the joy out of it). I’d even volunteer for field work – send me to Glasgow to chronicle changes in the Scots’ grammar and pronunciation! I’ll take one for the team and force myself to talk to hunky Scottish guys. 
Okay, so on the weekend, I used a free moisturizer – just for a change. The package only had enough in it for one leg, so I did my left one, then used my regular moisturizer for my right leg. I noticed that the free stuff was a little smoother than the right, but then again, I’m a cheap bitch, so the right leg had cheap stuff on it while the free stuff was moisturizer I would NEVER be able to afford. The next day, I was getting out of the shower and drying myself off when I realized that my legs didn’t match. Apparently, the free moisturizer had some tanner in it or something, because it looks (unnaturally, because I’m a redhead and BURN, not tan) like I’ve been lying in the sun somewhere, with only my left leg exposed. Odd, but interesting. Now I’m obsessed with comparing the colour on my legs to see how long it will last, and I wonder how dark I would have gotten had I used the expensive creme every day on the same leg. Hrm… It would be nice to actually have SOME colour on my pale-ass legs.
Say Anything was on tv today. You know you’re OLD when one of your favourite movies, complete with every adolescent Hollywood crush you’ve ever had, becomes 20 years old. Say Anything is almost 20 years old!! How WRONG is that?! It’s like talking to Johnny Co-op – he’s never seen the Princess Bride. In fact, I believe he’s never even HEARD of it. Does this mean that the whole ’stand outside the girl’s house, holding a stereo blasting Peter Gabriel’ schtick is lost on an entire generation and the ones that follow?! Wow, that makes my heart hurt.
Funny stuff.