Apartment hunting!

This is 1/3 to let kooriyoukai know I'm actually on the ball, another 1/3 to remind me that I have appointments to keep, and a final 1/3 to let anyone else know where to snipe me at any given moment of the next few days ♥ Please make it quick and painless plzkthxbai.

Today

4:30 PM - Looking at Cedar Creek Condos--they only had a 2 bed/1 bath to look at, but I figured it wouldn't hurt, cause the floorplan will be kinda similar, plus I get to see what the apartments kind of feel like.

Tuesday

10:30 AM - Plantation Oaks, meeting with some guy named Doug
11:30 AM - Hope I don't cut it too close, checking out Doux Chene apartments. I'm excited about these, since i really like the floor plan, here's hoping they're not too bad looking.

Wednesday
10:00 AM - Meadowspoint
Some time after that - Briarwood and Sundance, since they said to just come on in any time ♥

These were all the apartments that had stuff for us to look at and were leasing and all. I'm thinking we should be able to find SOMETHING out of these 6. SO! I'll be bringing my camera along, don't worry, will have plenty of pics for you to check out, KY. And I'll get some good info, too, hopefully. All of them seemed fine with us signing a lease now and not moving in til August, but I'll get the particulars on that for you. WISH ME LUCK!!

I'm kinda nervous though >_< I've never done anything like this before, so I hope I don't mess anything up *crosses fingers*

Japan rocks my socks

Ok, so I’m doing research for my linguistics paper (due tomorrow, stop looking at me like that, it’s gonna ROCK), and I’m reading through this awesome book, and come upon a section dealing with the merging of the sounds “shi” and “hi” sounds among Shitamichi speakers (the ‘downtown’ Tokyo-ites, from the older section of town), considered a substandard substitution among those of the uptown ‘Yamanote’ area. Here I quote from the book I’m reading:

“There is also an interesting lexical shift that is apparently related to the [h sh] merger. Many Yamanote speakers say futon wo hiku to mean ‘spread out the futon.’ The ‘correct’ verb is shiku ‘spread out,’ but hiku ‘pull’ is also semantically reasonable, since a futon is folded up for storage and must be pulled on to spread it for use. This use of hiku almost certainly originated as a hypercorrection by speakers with only shi in their native dialects. In attempting to imitate the prestige standard, such speakers are likely to go too far and replace some standard shi sequences with hi. Because of the semantic plausibility of hiku in this particular case, it has caught on to some extent among standard speakers, and the desire to avoid sounding like a Shitamachi speaker probably works in favor of hiku. Even if a Yamanote speaker knows that shiku is ‘correct,’ there is always the danger that it will be taken as a stigmatized pronunciation of hiku by listeners.”

…Wow O_O To think that the Japanese psyche delves that far into their language…I mean, it’s like saying, “I know that X is the right way to say the word, but everyone else will think I’m stupid/uppity/just-plain-wrong if I say it that way, so I’ll say it Y like everyone else.”

…WTF JAPAN XD