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Aug. 3rd, 2009 @ 10:37 am 
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So, today I have kind of a to-do list of Doom. All this week I am likely to be drowning in uni work (fortunately, I have a planned mid-week de-stress break attending John's show again on Wednesday), so please forgive a possible lack of meaningful content/possible surge of essay spam.
Ticked off list: calling my bank and enquiring, politely, where in the holy hell my goddamn Visa debit card is. The answer: it never got ordered, somehow. Growl. But the phone service rep ordered it then and there and I am assured I will now get it in "seven to ten working days".
Still to do today: a lot of linguistics, a lot of history, attending two classes, going to town and picking up my new belt, and calling my computer's manufacturer's service line and complaining that it's not working properly. Chas has reminded me it's not urgent, but it's still really annoying, so I want to get that done. Unfortunately, my only real window for doing it is this morning, and I don't want to, but if I don't I won't be able to before at least Friday, so. *sighs and rings*
The real problem is that the line is only open until 6pm Sydney time, which means 4pm here, and if I don't call now - on Monday morning I don't have a class until 12 - I can't for the rest of the week because I'm generally not done with classes etc until 4pm most days.
... Okay, we'll see if this works: tech support dude is e-mailing updated audio drivers and a link for the problem with my optical drive.
I really really hope that this works, I really profoundly want this to be something I can just fix myself.
Appreciated: the tech support dude, having listened to my explanation of the problem that included details which indicate a basic competence with computers, despite my female voice, gave the impression of assuming I know what I'm doing, in general.
... of course, the link he sent me for the audio drivers doesn't work. *sighs and hits redial*
The guy I spoke to *then* was supposed to send me new links, but I don't have them...
*redials again* Now to wait through the hold queue while I get dressed, because I need to leave for uni soon. Fun times.
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mine never got ordered either! Now I can't book wincon until next week *scowl*
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August 3rd, 2009 04:06 pm (UTC) |
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Linguistics on the radio
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I don't know whether you can get BBC Radio 4, maybe via the internet? (www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 works here, but it might test your IP address or some other annoyance)
Last Tuesday's edition of "Word of Mouth", repeated tonight, was about how different languages have different grammatical and semantic structures; different divisions of the colour space, for instance. There was some talk about absolute direction (no words for left and right, referring to your north-east leg, and all that), which occurs in several languages which are spoken by people who turn out to be better at inertial navigation, etc. I think the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was mentioned. (The programme is always about language, usually English usage, such as specialised forms used in a specific profession or sub-culture.)
I'm sure I first heard about the "absolute direction" somewhere else, recently. It wasn't you was it?
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