#modalauxiliary

Our Student ID cards actually have VR and Matkahuolto logos printed on them, so I believe the National Union of University Students (Suomen ylioppilaskuntien liitto) has some special agreement with them. As a short-term summer school student back in the day I wasn’t entitled to the discounts either.

a) I'm interested in Greek. b) I'm interested in Linguistics. c) I'm intersted in Biology but horribly misspelled the word 'nepenthes'. Choose wisely.     2. Do you think there is intelligent life on other planets? I believe that the universe is so unimagenibly huge and old that somewhere, sometime some kind of intelligent life must have emerged (or will, in the long run). The question should rather be: Will we ever be able to meet? And what is intelligence, anyway?     3 …and on this one? If a certain person does not remove their rotting food out of the fridge, there certainly will be some in our kitchen in the next few days. Apart from that there are many amazingly intelligent and wise life forms on this planet.   4  The furthest you have been from your place of residence? Ouh, good question. According to Google it's either Barcelona or Stockholm.   5  Would you travel to the moon? I'm a huge scaredy cat and hold an even bigger respect for the vast expanse of the universe. I'd love to see it with my own eyes, but even though I love flying I'd probably die on the way to the moon.    6 If you could be a mythical/fictional figure, who would you be? Batman? Actually, I'd rather become more and more myself than hypothetically thinking which character would fit the most.    7 Coffee, tea, or neither? Spiced tea. I love coffee but I'm not allowed to drink a lot of it.     8 Your favourite dish? Everything that is really hot and spicy. I love tofu. And chocolate.   9  The last thing you laughed about? Uh, I really don't know. I laugh about a lot of things, several times a day.     10 What annoys you the most right now? The publishing system of Academia. The public pays taxes to pay universities (ergo: scientists) to do research, and while the public rarely gets access to the results the only instance that earns money here are the publishing companies (since guess what, scientists have to pay for their own work in the end). What. What. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Okay, here I come. 1) If you could become anything at all, what would you choose to be? 2) What has been the most amazing experience you've had so far? 3) What is your favorite song of all times? 4) A quote from your favorite book. 5) Any childhood dreams that you have already been able to fullfill? 6) Ever had any cultural shock experience? 7) What makes a person's character look beautiful in your eyes? 8) Anything you would like to tell the next generation? 9) Tell me about something that has really inspired you-be it a teacher, an idol, a friend, an artist, a movie or a book. 10) Is there any thing that really annoys you that you would change immediately if you could? 11) Any last words? And~ I hereby solemly name: acerie, the-path-that-leads, dismater, modalauxiliary, morewyckedthanyou, kawaguro, plushtastic, shingruen, homunkulusgnom, gefrierzelle, scatterlights, weresquirrel (and everyone else who feels like answering questions).

More importantly, I wolfed that mac and cheese shit down. I knew I'd left my appetite in that suitcase.

A super-quick reply as my laptop (and me) is in Finland but its charger (and everything else in my suitcase) is in London Heathrow: I didn’t buy them for a course, I bought them because they should be useful for my thesis work and there are very limited copies in the library. We looked at a few early chapters of Johnson in one class, and Gries is Gries.

Chocolate is not a health food, also, I can buy that in Canada.

Only when I can avoid being in the same room as obnoxious drunk people who keep interrupting me with their stupid comments when I'm trying to tell a story and other people are listening.

What annoys you the most right now?