I found one of my Far Side books today...

(Must find the others)

And I was browsing through it. Gee, there's a lot of Far Side comics out there. And you only ever see a few of them.

Math teachers always have that same "Math Phobics Nightmare" taped up on their walls. Veterinarians always have "What Dogs Hear".

It's boring. Conformist. Why not tape up, say, the one with the alien spaceship that takes away the desert island's tree? That'd be a real bit of absurdity in your day. Or the trick knee one...

Why always the same three or four comics in constant rotation? WHY, GOD, WHY?????

Oh, sure, people speak of relevance. Well, there's other math comics, and animal comics, and whatnot, so what relevance?

It's like that whole pink and purple thing again. Ick.

Harry Potter Thoughts...

( Resemblances between Harry and Tom )

( On Horcruces (note nifty plural form) )

Ana's language...

Few observations:

1. Yaygix means "music". If you can explain this, please do.

2. She seems to be gaining new words more slowly. At least, she's not using new words as much, though she may understand them. There's less "Wow, I didn't know she knew that word!" now. However, her grammar is every day getting more refined, when previously it had been pretty much staying still. She's working harder at putting words in the correct order, saying "don't" instead of "no", adding affixes to her verbs, that sort of thing.

3. She's using French much less often. She responds to it when my mother speaks it, but now she consistently will respond in English. Exceptions: Good-bye phrases.

4. She's experimenting a lot with pronouns, nouns, and names. It's like now she's asking "Am I 'I', 'me', 'Ana', or 'girl'? Do I say 'he sleeping' or 'man sleeping' or 'somebody sleeping'? Is that 'Connie', 'you', or 'her'?" where before, she didn't seem to have that problem - she just skipped the naming word if she wasn't sure.

5. She definitely knows all her colors, though she's a bit shaky on brown, gray, and pink. Also, when she's bored with the question, she'll deliberately give an answer she knows is wrong. She does the same thing with counting. If you catch her at it alone, she consistently is correct in counting. If you ask her to count, even if you count with her, she'll give a completely absurd answer... "One doggy, two doggies, three doggies! How many doggies, Ana?" "TEN!" Girl's got a completely inappropriate sense of humor.

6. She recognizes the alphabet, even when it's in a different format than the way she's seen it before. She thinks it's a cue to sing the alphabet song.

7. She tells stories now, things which've happened to her in the past few days. She's really a good little actress.

Here's a question, which will have no impact whatsoever on what I post, but which I'm curious about regardless:

Do you care about the Ana stories more than the Ana language, less than the Ana language, or about the same? Do you care about either at all? Do you think that she'll google herself later and get mad at me?

On Veronica Mars and Lost...

( VM )

( Lost )