*Dust dust*
So I had a pretty good Thanksgiving holiday run. I spent Thursday back in Haymaker... Haymarket.. with my parents and my brothers, and we had our standard feast: green bean casserole (my favorite), stuffed shells in spaghetti sauce (take it or leave it), yummy vegetarian breadcrumb dressing with apple and cranberry bits, a can o' black olives, a can o' cranberry sauce, squished yellow squash (leave it), turkey (leave it), and yummy rolls.
Friday I came back to Rosslyn and saw They Might Be Giants in concert for the first time, at the 930 Club. It was pretty cool. I think I'd rather see them in a small setting, but I bet that's rare these days.
Saturday, for the most part, I vegged, ate leftovers, and made the second in a series of recurring trips to the Barnes & Noble in Clarendon. I read a few magazine articles, one of which reminded me to live in the moment, and another of which reminded me to stop procrastinating. I did my usual browsing through the foreign language reference section, which reminded me to look for an electronic Chinese-English dictionary, and to start watching streaming TV in Japanese and Chinese.
Today, because of my bookstorific inspiration, I spent much of the day watching Japanese and Chinese TV online! I was having trouble getting anything interesting on the Japanese channels, but I ended up watching a few hours of a Chinese magical legend style live action drama, which was clearly aimed at 10 year olds. I noticed that, because the whole show had subtitles in hanzi, I could translate much of what was being said on the fly. It also helps that most Chinese characters only have one pronunciation, meaning I could enter what I heard on the keyboard and come up with the correct characters pretty quickly. And then Chinese Pera-kun took me the rest of the way. Yes, it's true, Chinese is child's play compared to Japanese. Sigh. I'll master them both someday. Oh yes. They will be mine.
Oh, and also, because of my bookstorific inspiration, I stopped procrastinating and set up my appointment for bloodwork. Now I just have to remember to go do it tomorrow.
Goodnight!
Friday I came back to Rosslyn and saw They Might Be Giants in concert for the first time, at the 930 Club. It was pretty cool. I think I'd rather see them in a small setting, but I bet that's rare these days.
Saturday, for the most part, I vegged, ate leftovers, and made the second in a series of recurring trips to the Barnes & Noble in Clarendon. I read a few magazine articles, one of which reminded me to live in the moment, and another of which reminded me to stop procrastinating. I did my usual browsing through the foreign language reference section, which reminded me to look for an electronic Chinese-English dictionary, and to start watching streaming TV in Japanese and Chinese.
Today, because of my bookstorific inspiration, I spent much of the day watching Japanese and Chinese TV online! I was having trouble getting anything interesting on the Japanese channels, but I ended up watching a few hours of a Chinese magical legend style live action drama, which was clearly aimed at 10 year olds. I noticed that, because the whole show had subtitles in hanzi, I could translate much of what was being said on the fly. It also helps that most Chinese characters only have one pronunciation, meaning I could enter what I heard on the keyboard and come up with the correct characters pretty quickly. And then Chinese Pera-kun took me the rest of the way. Yes, it's true, Chinese is child's play compared to Japanese. Sigh. I'll master them both someday. Oh yes. They will be mine.
Oh, and also, because of my bookstorific inspiration, I stopped procrastinating and set up my appointment for bloodwork. Now I just have to remember to go do it tomorrow.
Goodnight!