To-Do--10/25/2012

To-Do:

• Wake-up: 8:30 am
• Done
• Check email (10 minutes)
• Done
• Italian Discussion (1.5 hours)
• Done
• Muir 50 conference (1 hour)
• Done
• Lunch (.5 hours)
• Done
• Review Italian notes (.5 hours)
• Done
• Phonetics (1.5 hours)
• Done
• Come up with new project proposal using idea of Italian accented English versus American accented English (1 hour)
• Done, jotted down what I want to do for project and what I'll be measuring, like vowel length, the formant frequencies (focusing specifically on the first and second ones), and pitch. 
• Review Phonetics notes (.5 hours)
• Done
• Do more of Phonetics homework (.5 hours)
• Done
• Read ahead for Italian (1 hour)
• Done
• Dinner (1 hour)
• Done
• Accent book (1 hour)
• Done. I read more about Italian accents and specifically how they differ from region to region. For example, in Southern dialects, word initial "th" sounds might get dropped out completely, rather than substituted for anything. 
• Python programming (1 hour)
• Done. If-else statements. 
• Play around with Ardour (1 hour)
• Didn't get to this
• Sleep: 1 am/2 am