milkthesis

้ญ‚ๅœจๅ‰้ข้ฃž๏ผŒไบบๅœจๅŽ้ข่ฟฝ ๆˆ‘ๅ˜ด็ฒ˜็€ๆฏ๏ผŒๅ–็€้ฆ™ๅ’–ๅ•ก --- [19 Nov 2024] "tenses situate events relative to their closeness or their distance from the speaker. rules of grammar give the empty space of human speech some shape." - chris kaus --- [18 Nov 2024] a vampire visits me every weekend. he doesn't suck blood from my neck, no, but just enough for my skin to flush a tinge of blue. he begs for me to touch him, to embrace him, and i oblige; i beg for him to do the same, and he obliges too. he whispers sweet-loving words into my ears then he disappears from my arms before the morning sun comes. sometimes i don't even know if he is real, but his scent and warmth still lingers from between my sheets; maybe he isn't real but i can still feel my fingers running through his dark curls; i think he is not real, i think he is a ghost because i only see him in the dead of night. i dance with the vampire every weekend. --- [10 Nov 2024] โ€่ฏด่ฏ่ฆ็ฎ—่ฏโ€œ --- [5 Nov 2024] during the hungry ghost festival where we burn paper money effigies offering to beings that aren't here it's the beginning of november still my eyes sting from smoke still i burn even if you aren't here --- [4 Nov 2024] our wills and fates do so contrary run. --- [3 Nov 2024] every second every minute hour and day it slips through my fingers like fine gold sand in a desert storm i can't see your face in my mind's eye ---

to-do list for to-morrow

  • 1) wake up
  • 2) make breakfast sandwich
  • 3) eat breakfast sandwich
  • 4) write thesis draft
  • 5) send draft to prof
  • 6) take a nap
  • 7) make dinner
  • 8) eat dinner
  • 9) shower
  • 10) sleep

theories of grammar

  • poverty of the stimulus
  • phrase structure grammar
  • x-bar theory
  • government and binding theory
  • head-driven phrase structure grammar
  • transformational grammar
  • lexical functional grammar
  • construction grammar
  • dependency grammar
  • systemic functional grammar
  • role and reference grammar

2nd november 2024, saturday

  • 9:30am: alarm
  • 10:00am: got dressed
  • 10:30am: quick breakfast
  • 10:45am: ran out of the house
  • 10:57am: clocked in (just in time)
  • 2:00pm: lunch break
  • 2:30pm: booked flights
  • 3:00pm: back to work
  • 7:00pm: clocked out
  • 7:30pm: dinner with family
  • 9:30pm: got home
  • 1:30am: finished studying

"you loved me"

  • [PRED 'love <SUBJ, OBJ>'
  • TENSE PAST
  • SUBJ [PRED 'you']
  • OBJ [PRED 'me']]