I actually really like the thing when you’re starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn’t natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me “every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week.” And I understood.
I don’t think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words “humidity” or “stress”, I managed to string together: “This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me.” And she understood.
And sometimes you just say things weird, but it’s better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn’t know the spanish word for “hurry”, but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english “I have all the time in the world.”
The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn’t expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.
when we were at college (in england) we had a friend visiting and we both got rather drunk, and our landlady had a young swiss girl staying too and this girl suddenly burst into the room we were in and yelled “quick! in here!! peanut bottle!!!” and we and our friend looked at each other drunkly and leapt into action because we fucking had to find out what on earth
and it turned out the swiss girl had discovered the local wholefood shop’s home made crunchy peanut butter and had fallen in love with it, so she bought two enormous jars of it to take home to switzerland and she needed us to sit on her suitcase so she could get it shut - and we both talked about this for decades and always wondered if the jars exploded in the hold but mainly so we could say the phrase to each other over the phone
Yesterday I was hanging out with me friend at the river, and I was vibing, just floating on my back in the water with my arms spread. She said “lol you look like a corpse” I replied “I’m an Opheliapilled Ladyofshallotcel” and she just stared at me 😔
the lan sect must be terrible to wage war against just because they wake up so early
like you’re there trying to get up, maybe get some breakfast in you and you look up and there’s this army of morning people who’ve probably been up for hours already
on the other hand, they could definitely take advantage of their bedtime.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
feihua is like you saved my life and i can never repay you, you slipped away from me, you left me waiting on the shore, you never returned, i turned my back on you the last time we met, i didn’t even know it was the last time, if i had known i would have looked back at you, i would have looked back, why didn’t you let me repay you, come back to me, i am still waiting on this shore
hiii hi sorry this took a while! this past year I didn’t do any real planning beyond to do lists in my notes app but this year I’m giving notion yet another try so I’ll put my setup under the cut!
I modified this template I found on Pinterest (it links through to reddit) and I’m really excited to see how it works for me!!! this is what it looks like for me:
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