Monday, May 11, 2009

Three down, Three to go

Yea! Finals are almost over! Today I had a test for a class I didn't really prepare for, so I got up early and studied at the library for a few hours right before. Guess what? I studied all the right stuff, and I definitely aced it. Like i would be disappointed if I end up with under 94-95 percent. Nice! Now I only have three more finals, and I'm out to Utah for a few weeks. That will be nice, because I won't have to clean up after my stinky roommate for a while. And it will be nice to be in a place where we don't have 80 percent humidity making me feel like some kind of fatso sweating dripping all down my back when I go do something outdoorsy. I can't ever remember having a sweaty back in Utah, but here I get one just walking to school.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Extremely Intelligent Conversation

Well, it’s been a crazy last week of school doing papers and getting ready for finals, but I just thought I had to get on here and write something. And I had a discussion at fhe on Monday about all the ways we have in English to say “throw up” (as a verb). This was what we could think of:

Hurl
Spew
Throw up
Vomit
Retch
Puke
Barf
Toss your cookies
Lose your lunch
Ralf( or Ralph,there was some dissent on the spelling)
Pray to the porcelain god
Be sick
Yak(Yack?)
Upchuck/chuckup
Blow chunks
Heave
Blecking up
Blowing biscuits

I had heard all but “blecking up” and “blowing biscuits” before. After this discussion I went home and looked online, let me tell you there are tons more. My personal favorite is “yelling at the bushes”, the imagery is just incredible. But most that I found just weren’t that great. Lemme know if you can think of some more good expressions. I wonder why we have so many? Korean only has one or two. I guess that's why English is great. Also, I think "yak" is an animal,and so "yack" is probably the right way to spell it in this context...but I was the only one who thought that way.