Time! Time!
Mar. 14th, 2002 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetAbout 5 weeks ago I was sure I'd have a draft of my prospectus before my trip. As that is in less than two weeks, I am now much more dubious.
Meanwhile, I have here a book in Italian chock full of articles I need to read at some point -- after I photocopy them, as the book needs to be returned to the I.L.L. office next door before I leave today. Too bad I don't know Italian, but hey, it's descended from Latin, how hard can it be?
Ah, if only I really believed that.
And now, some random points to ponder, both interrogative and declarative:
- What is the point of wearing plastic gloves if you're still going to handle both the money and the food while wearing them?
- Traveling in Europe is more depressing now. Since Euros are roughly equal to dollars, you pretty much know how much you're spending, and that's no good at all.
- How shocking will reality TV try to get before it just fades away?
- It is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth ; and, from water, soul -- if you want to believe that.
- If you were playing "Gother Than Thou," would you dread getting the card that makes you sing four lines of "This Corrosion"?
- I hope this last somewhat tedious episode of "Buffy" will permit a return to fighting external rather than internal demons.
- Speaking of Buffy, why the hell didn't she get fired from the burger place when she ran off with Riley two weeks ago?
- Masha'allah says: If you are asked by a general or someone who is anxious about war, take the initiater (that is, the querist) from the ascendant, the enemy from the seventh [astrological place]. And if the Moon is receding from some planet and is conjoining with another planet, take [the planet] from which the Moon is receding for the things [indicated by] the descendent. And know this also, that the superior planets are more powerful than those near the earth.
Meanwhile, I have here a book in Italian chock full of articles I need to read at some point -- after I photocopy them, as the book needs to be returned to the I.L.L. office next door before I leave today. Too bad I don't know Italian, but hey, it's descended from Latin, how hard can it be?
Ah, if only I really believed that.
And now, some random points to ponder, both interrogative and declarative:
- What is the point of wearing plastic gloves if you're still going to handle both the money and the food while wearing them?
- Traveling in Europe is more depressing now. Since Euros are roughly equal to dollars, you pretty much know how much you're spending, and that's no good at all.
- How shocking will reality TV try to get before it just fades away?
- It is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth ; and, from water, soul -- if you want to believe that.
- If you were playing "Gother Than Thou," would you dread getting the card that makes you sing four lines of "This Corrosion"?
- I hope this last somewhat tedious episode of "Buffy" will permit a return to fighting external rather than internal demons.
- Speaking of Buffy, why the hell didn't she get fired from the burger place when she ran off with Riley two weeks ago?
- Masha'allah says: If you are asked by a general or someone who is anxious about war, take the initiater (that is, the querist) from the ascendant, the enemy from the seventh [astrological place]. And if the Moon is receding from some planet and is conjoining with another planet, take [the planet] from which the Moon is receding for the things [indicated by] the descendent. And know this also, that the superior planets are more powerful than those near the earth.
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Date: 2002-03-14 08:59 am (UTC)Well, if the employees there are anything like the employees at the McD's near my apartment, then running off in the middle of the shift does NOT make her the worst employee of the batch. She's still a basically intelligent human being.
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Date: 2002-03-14 09:02 am (UTC)Ahhh, remember, she knows the Double Meat secret!! What I want to know is why she even bothers to GO to work. She should just arrange a huge settlement.
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Date: 2002-03-14 12:16 pm (UTC)heh. That was the same assumption I had going into college. I'd taken 4 years of Latin in middle school and high school. I wanted to study glassblowing in Italy at some point, and figured I'd take Italian to meet my foreign language requirement. "It's the same country. How hard can it be?"
I failed. Literally. My first F, and I had to drop the course. There's just enough different to make it annoying, not to mention a ton of things that look the same, but are actually completely different.
it reminded me a lot of an old joke:
A man visiting Italy for the first time was having a huge amount of difficulty communicating with the natives. English wasn't working well, and he didn't speak Italian. One day, he decided to try Latin, which he'd studied extensively in school. Leaving his hotel, he got into a cab, and politely gave the cabbie directions in Latin. The cabbie, turned around in his seat, faced the man and said "geez buddy, you've been gone for a while, haven't you?"