“Restaurant Chinese”

Once again, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why I did not do a conventional Tuesday Frisbee post. We didn’t play this week. It rained too much. So there: a weather cancellation. Wait, that doesn’t sound right; that sounds like it was going to rain but then we called up the clouds and told them to knock it off. A cancellation due to weather. There, that’s better.

March of the Penguins is the movie that I have most recently viewed. It is charming, educational, and features Antarctica: all good reasons to like it. From this movie I learned that penguins are very strange, but very good at queueing. And when they get tired of walking, they start sliding on their bellies. Penguins would probably be excellent players of Super Action Ball.

And now, in the middle of the post, we explain the title. Turns out there’s this site that is a nice little tutorial in reading common Chinese characters found in restaurants. I’m definitely going to study it, if for no other reason than to add another party trick to my linguistic repertoire.

I took the GRE today, and it went well. In the interest of trying not to sound like I’m bragging, I won’t tell you here what my scores were. You can ask me personally some other time if you really care. Let it suffice to say that I did not score a perfect 1600 on the combined verbal and quantitative (read: math) sections, but I did not score poorly. And I did get to write what I thought was a pretty sweet essay on objectivity for the writing section, but I won’t know what score I got on that until later.

Since I am trying to whip up a report for the end of my Research Experience for Undergraduates, I bid you all farewell for the time being. As soon as I get some free time I also plan to start moving into the new apartment. And if you are in Grand Forks between the 3rd and the 10th of August, do contact me in some fashion. There are all kinds of friends I haven’t seen in a while. How’s this for an idea: tubing on the Red Lake River, anyone?