When I grow up, I want to be a linguistic consultant.

mood: весёлая (happy, almost. it's got a fun connotation too. it's a little better than happy.)
music: new Земфира cd!
random word: безопасность (security. без=without; опасность=danger. so they don't have security in Russia, only non-dangerous times. oh, and guess what the B in KGB stands for...)

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So this is definitely my second time writing this post. Blogger.com is stupid. :-P

Anyway, this post is about our futures. Yes, all of us, because you are all being recruited.
Dan and I were talking today and we decided that when we grow up we should totally be like private linguistic detectives! ... Then, reality set in, but we realized that it was kind of still possible. THEN, we googled "linguistic consultant" and found out it actually exists! AND THEN, we realized that we have a whole lot of really smart, lots-of-language-speaking friends, and we could totally have the best linguistic consulting business out there!

So, this post is to announce the official (future) establishment of "Linguistic Moments" - linguistic consultants, extraordinaire. (NOTE: the name was only decided upon after the oh-so-clever "Becky Bierman is Better than Dan, Co." ...and, of course, in Mark's honor) The best part about it? It's totally possible! It's basically public affairs kind of stuff, but with a linguistic twist. I mean, there's communication within companies, and to clients, or, what I think would be really cool, is to work with advertising companies and work on advertising slogans and themes, all in terms of linguistics. It would be so neat! And even if (god forbid) our company doesn't actually happen, there's got to be people who work for big corporations who do this kind of stuff. Sooo neat!

Have I ever told you how much I love linguistics?