Mood : whatever happens when you put on Smashing Pumpkins' song " Tonight Tonight" on really loudly while wearing big headphones. (In my case : excitement)
I don't care who says what : basslines and string sections sound better without any sound interference.
Purchased a book today : Being the cheap-ass academic , I snooped out Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct"
in which he roughly follows Chomsky's theory of cognitive abilities to learn and construct language.
The book is quite old, dating back to 1994 but he writes in an absolutely enthralling way, so much so that you get tingles while reading and wish you could read faster so you can feast on the book like you would Swiss chocolate.
An example : he said that George Bernard Shaw once complained that "fish" could just as well be spelled "ghoti" (gh as in tough, o as in woman, ti as in nation) but that its merely the instutionalised inertia that prevents us from developing spelling further into something more simple. To me, that bit was delightful , especially as Afrikaans is full of German and Dutch loanwords, but with spelling simplification. In that sense, even though the language is only been in full use since 1925, we're ahead of other languages.
Now the problem is just that im caught between two fields (language and psychology) that I both love, but have to choose between.
Next idea : Don't you think there's something narcisstic about having children? Trying to see which of your genes
have manifested in your offspring? Maybe thats part of the subconscious reason why people are reluctant to adopt.
Of course you cannot simplify it to that extent, but think about it. Deep, deep down.
Anni 
