Sauce and Course Don't Rhyme

Sorry for the long inter-post interval. On with it...


My flatmates and I:Back row, Left to Right: Chloe, Naomi, June, Reshmi, Fran, Sarah, Heeral
Front, Left to Right: Jess, Me

My flatmates and I were having pizza the other night (from Domino's). You know those little dipping sauces that come with the pizza? Well, we got three flavors: garlic, sweet chili, and BBQ. On top each was a phrase that labeled the contents. I don't remember the one for the garlic [edit: I think it was "The Garlic Sauce is Fabulous."], but it rhymed - Jess read it out loud, I didn't read it myself - and the one for the chili was "Don't be silly, try the Sweet Chili". Then I got to the BBQ sauce. I read it to myself, and said "Huh. That's weird. Why would they make one not rhyme?" Naomi (one of my flatmates) asked what I was talking about; I read the chili one, and said that the BBQ sauce one didn't rhyme, and I thought that was weird. She read the BBQ sauce one and it rhymed for her: "BBQ sauce, delicious of course." She looked at me like I was nuts, and asked how I say it. So I read it for them, and they laughed. For me, "sauce" does not rhyme with "horse". [more edit: In retrospect, it also mattered a great deal that Jess read the garlic one out loud, since "sauce" and "fabulous" don't rhyme for me, either. ] For them, "sauce" , "course", and "horse" all rhyme. I'd never even considered accent-specific advertising... country or culture specific, sure, but accents and rhyming wasn't something I'd ever thought about before! Ah, the fun never ends.

In other news, we've just finished the third week of classes. Lectures are unbelievably frustrating here - very little like I've come to expect lectures to be. I've got my first essay due this Thursday... I'm not excited. I've also been studying for the GRE subject test in Psychology - I take that the first Saturday in November. I've decided to postpone my grad school applications to next application cycle - meaning next year. I just wasn't happy with how good of a decision I felt I was making. So, my applications will go in next year, and I'll be much more confident and excited about it instead of dreading it.

Time for an outing to the grocery store! Then settling in for a long afternoon/evening with the studying and the books...