me gusta el agua

594~3288<---call that number. it belongs to the home phone of the overly-noisy man who was standing in the pleasant street parking garage screaming into his mobile this afternoon. here is a snippet of the resounding conversation that greeted me as i entered this afternoon, "YES, YES....LET ME GIVE YOU BOTH OF MY PHONE NUMBERS!!!!!! OKAY, HERE'S MY HOME NUMBER: 594~3288...." after that, i was concentrating on remembering the number to post in here, so i didn't get the digits on the beloved cellular. anyway, i've decided that anyone who is that loud and obnoxious in a public place (especially one who is broadcasting his telephone number) deserves to have it listed in my blog. please prank call him or something. thank you.
i seriously considered skipping spanish linguistics this afternoon. but, i didn't. i should have. i was really tired, and the only reason that i went was because it was the last class before break, and i have only missed each of my classes one time. so, i went. i was utterly mortified when i got there. classes began with a lecture on the contrasts between english and spanish parts of speech. okay, life is good--i even took notes in pink ink today!=) then, he started going around the room. shit. i didn't understand what we were doing! i hate spanish. and, as i had prayed he wouldn't, he eventually got to me. "tiffany, what is question 27?" well, i knew what question 27 was...but i had no clue as to what the answer may entail. okay, concentration....sentence: "me acoste temprano anoche." question i must answer: "is the 'se' a true reflexive, a reciprocal, a causative, a middle voice, a meaning-changing, an inchoative, an attributive, a locative, an impersonal, a lexical, or an inherent?" well, i stared at it for a minute. he asked me if i knew what it meant. of course i knew what it meant...i still didn't know what the purpose of the "se" was though! nobody else in the class had missed a question yet...well, i missed it. i guess i didn't really MISS it; i just had no answer. by the way, the "se" in that sentence is a middle voice. oh, and after i missed that, he moved on to some other native english speakers in the class....every one of them missed their questions too. i guess i didn't feel so bad after that. nevertheless, i was still embarressed at the time.
i'm sick of not being able to talk to eric!