[meme] Hit Me
~ Comment with "Hit me!"
~ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
~ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
~ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.Questions by theblackheat
1. How many language do you speak and which language would you learn, why?
Well, I speak English but as far as fluently, that's it. I mean, I took so much Spanish in grade school and high school and college that I should be able to speak it a little, but, no. Not really at all. Though I can still conjugate regular verbs and my college textbook is... around here somewhere. I also took French in high school, two semesters of it. All I can remember how to say is basically to say that I don't speak French.
Of course, the reason I didn't retain these languages was pretty much my fault. I did it on purpose because I felt my time could be better spent learning Japanese (don't ask me how I passed my classes because, seriously, I don't know. It's not like I took notes. But somehow, except for a D in the two classes I completely ignored to write the Second Worst Piece of Literature in the Entire History of the English Language, and also except the F in Art 1 -- oh, boy, that's a long story! -- I got great grades).
Of course, I didn't actually so much learn Japanese. Well, I increased my vocabulary and that was all well and good, but vocabulary is useless without grammar knowledge. But, that's okay. The past few months, I've been studying with TextFugu (well worth the subscription). Now I can say something is, isn't, was, and wasn't... whatever. Um... like 犬はねこじゃありません (because it's so important to be able to tell you that dogs are not cats). And I can talk about things I like and hate and don't like and don't hate and all that jazz. I can talk about this, that, and that over there, in two ways ways: あれはくるまです and あのくるまはやすいですね. I also know a bunch of verbs (if by know you mean 'can sometimes remember') and they're all ending in ます and I know how to modify those to negate, past, and past negate them. I'm just now learning adjectives that end in い but not how to conjugate them yet, because I want to study my な and い adjectives more before I add more stuff. Though, it has been incredibly helpful, all that vocabulary I learned over the past 13 years from song lyrics and titles LOL.
So... Yeah, definitely REALLY learning Japanese now, unlike before when I was sort of learning it but not really.
There's just one problem, though. My sentence flashcards are getting to the point that I remember the translation because I remember the specific card itself, meaning I'm not looking at the vocabulary and grammar to translate it, I'm remembering it as a whole unit which means that I'm not truly getting practice with my verbs I'm learning (an example: 犬をたべませんでした。 is "I didn't eat dog" and I could figure that out if I needed to, but every time I see it, I immediately know it's the "I didn't eat dog" card because it starts with 犬を and it's the only one that does. See the problem?). Ah, well. I'll keep studying.
2. Tell me about your city you are living in. What do you like and what not in it? Do you have a favorite place there?
Well, there are cows across the highway (and for some reason, they've been very vocal today and yesterday. Is it cow mating season?) in a big field with a barn. My neighbor's house is empty ever since she got badly injured and had to go live with relatives (her big fat dog still lives outside our house and we're feeding her now). In the other direction... there's a dirt road running by my house. It's a three-song round trip (there are some tasks I time by songs because I have no sense of timing) to the closest store (a dollar general and a gas station), and I have to drive like a thirty to 40 minute round trip to go grocery shopping or to reup the hubby's beer supply... which cannot be purchased on Sundays. Oh, not to mention, I can't get sake for cooking without an hour and 15 minute (that's only the one way) trip to the capital. There's no good restaurants.
Hmm... I guess I could sum it up with I WANT TO MOVE NOW!
3. If you could reborn whatever or whoever you would like, what or who would it be? Why? (you can go back to the history too)
I would want to be a dancer. Er, not just a dancer. A singer too. I've got the singing down in this life but not the dancing and I'm so out of shape and my knee hurts when I try to use the exercise bike we got and I have no idea why. But it seems to me, that dancing could be really cathartic. SO yeah, let me be reborn as someone who can do both instead of just one. But otherwise, I think, being me is not so bad. So I guess I want to be reincarnated as a better me more than a different person. (Is that arrogant? LOL)
4. If you could spend a day with your favorite JE band/soloist what would do do with him/them? Think about 'no plan' Cartoon KAT-TUN episode. :)
Aside from the obvious? LOL just kidding. You know, I think I would like to cook for 6人 KAT-TUN and also just generally goof off. There's a pub at the capital I'm fond of and they used to have the most awesome chocolate mousse cake. Seriously, though, it's the same stuff I'd want to do with any people I was trying to get to know.
5. Make an advertisement for yourself. What are your good and bad sides? And honestly what do you like and dislike about yourself?
Hmmm... well, I am crazy, but I'm not sure which side of the discussion that falls on. It's hard to deal with sometimes, but on the other hand, it has a hand in who I am and how I think and feel. Let's see... I'm creative and smart and somehow manage to have strong opinions but at the same time be impossible to offend (yeah, don't ask me how that's possible because I really don't know). I live my life on the fly through intuition but it doesn't seem like that to others because by the time I'm talking to them, my brain has already done all the math so it sounds like I live logically.
Let's see... I'm very clumsy and I have the scars to prove it. Mostly they're burns except the ones from the unexplained vasculitis and the place where I cut my finger pretty badly (don't use a brand new really sharp knife while drunk) and the three parallel lines on my upper left arm (though that one's not clumsiness).
What else...
I ramble a lot.
I hardly ever see people anymore except for my husband so my social skills are suffering for it. While I don't have trouble constructing sentences at normal speed while typing, for some reason it's harder and harder to put them together while speaking. Though, much as I'd love to blame that on the waning social skills, I think it's more tied to the slightly noticeable mental medication fog. That stuff randomly drugs me up anyway (though not as often as before) but when they upped my Seroquel from 400mg to 600mg, it got harder to speak properly and now I'm up to 800 so...
Oh, I'm an unintentional mimic. I pick up habits or whatever. Um... I'm not sure how to give a good example of it though. It's little things. Except when I sing, that's really obvious, the pronunciation, the accents, all that jazz.
I bow. It drives the hubby nuts but did amusing the woman at the noodle soup place. I know I didn't always do it, but I guess at some point I decided it was a polite thing to do and started doing it. See, I'm really big on being polite, though not to the point of telling blatant lies. There's better ways to be polite.
I procrastinate.
I have low willpower. Well, the hubby says that's not exactly true. He says I have a very strong willpower... about things I want to do. So I guess it's more accurate to say, I'm bad at making myself do things I don't want to do or don't like to do.
I'm sure I could tell you fifty gajillion (exactly that many... I counted! Twice!) more things about me but I was supposed to be sweeping 24 minutes ago.
I hate cleaning.
~ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
~ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
~ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.Questions by theblackheat
1. How many language do you speak and which language would you learn, why?
Well, I speak English but as far as fluently, that's it. I mean, I took so much Spanish in grade school and high school and college that I should be able to speak it a little, but, no. Not really at all. Though I can still conjugate regular verbs and my college textbook is... around here somewhere. I also took French in high school, two semesters of it. All I can remember how to say is basically to say that I don't speak French.
Of course, the reason I didn't retain these languages was pretty much my fault. I did it on purpose because I felt my time could be better spent learning Japanese (don't ask me how I passed my classes because, seriously, I don't know. It's not like I took notes. But somehow, except for a D in the two classes I completely ignored to write the Second Worst Piece of Literature in the Entire History of the English Language, and also except the F in Art 1 -- oh, boy, that's a long story! -- I got great grades).
Of course, I didn't actually so much learn Japanese. Well, I increased my vocabulary and that was all well and good, but vocabulary is useless without grammar knowledge. But, that's okay. The past few months, I've been studying with TextFugu (well worth the subscription). Now I can say something is, isn't, was, and wasn't... whatever. Um... like 犬はねこじゃありません (because it's so important to be able to tell you that dogs are not cats). And I can talk about things I like and hate and don't like and don't hate and all that jazz. I can talk about this, that, and that over there, in two ways ways: あれはくるまです and あのくるまはやすいですね. I also know a bunch of verbs (if by know you mean 'can sometimes remember') and they're all ending in ます and I know how to modify those to negate, past, and past negate them. I'm just now learning adjectives that end in い but not how to conjugate them yet, because I want to study my な and い adjectives more before I add more stuff. Though, it has been incredibly helpful, all that vocabulary I learned over the past 13 years from song lyrics and titles LOL.
So... Yeah, definitely REALLY learning Japanese now, unlike before when I was sort of learning it but not really.
There's just one problem, though. My sentence flashcards are getting to the point that I remember the translation because I remember the specific card itself, meaning I'm not looking at the vocabulary and grammar to translate it, I'm remembering it as a whole unit which means that I'm not truly getting practice with my verbs I'm learning (an example: 犬をたべませんでした。 is "I didn't eat dog" and I could figure that out if I needed to, but every time I see it, I immediately know it's the "I didn't eat dog" card because it starts with 犬を and it's the only one that does. See the problem?). Ah, well. I'll keep studying.
2. Tell me about your city you are living in. What do you like and what not in it? Do you have a favorite place there?
Well, there are cows across the highway (and for some reason, they've been very vocal today and yesterday. Is it cow mating season?) in a big field with a barn. My neighbor's house is empty ever since she got badly injured and had to go live with relatives (her big fat dog still lives outside our house and we're feeding her now). In the other direction... there's a dirt road running by my house. It's a three-song round trip (there are some tasks I time by songs because I have no sense of timing) to the closest store (a dollar general and a gas station), and I have to drive like a thirty to 40 minute round trip to go grocery shopping or to reup the hubby's beer supply... which cannot be purchased on Sundays. Oh, not to mention, I can't get sake for cooking without an hour and 15 minute (that's only the one way) trip to the capital. There's no good restaurants.
Hmm... I guess I could sum it up with I WANT TO MOVE NOW!
3. If you could reborn whatever or whoever you would like, what or who would it be? Why? (you can go back to the history too)
I would want to be a dancer. Er, not just a dancer. A singer too. I've got the singing down in this life but not the dancing and I'm so out of shape and my knee hurts when I try to use the exercise bike we got and I have no idea why. But it seems to me, that dancing could be really cathartic. SO yeah, let me be reborn as someone who can do both instead of just one. But otherwise, I think, being me is not so bad. So I guess I want to be reincarnated as a better me more than a different person. (Is that arrogant? LOL)
4. If you could spend a day with your favorite JE band/soloist what would do do with him/them? Think about 'no plan' Cartoon KAT-TUN episode. :)
Aside from the obvious? LOL just kidding. You know, I think I would like to cook for 6人 KAT-TUN and also just generally goof off. There's a pub at the capital I'm fond of and they used to have the most awesome chocolate mousse cake. Seriously, though, it's the same stuff I'd want to do with any people I was trying to get to know.
5. Make an advertisement for yourself. What are your good and bad sides? And honestly what do you like and dislike about yourself?
Hmmm... well, I am crazy, but I'm not sure which side of the discussion that falls on. It's hard to deal with sometimes, but on the other hand, it has a hand in who I am and how I think and feel. Let's see... I'm creative and smart and somehow manage to have strong opinions but at the same time be impossible to offend (yeah, don't ask me how that's possible because I really don't know). I live my life on the fly through intuition but it doesn't seem like that to others because by the time I'm talking to them, my brain has already done all the math so it sounds like I live logically.
Let's see... I'm very clumsy and I have the scars to prove it. Mostly they're burns except the ones from the unexplained vasculitis and the place where I cut my finger pretty badly (don't use a brand new really sharp knife while drunk) and the three parallel lines on my upper left arm (though that one's not clumsiness).
What else...
I ramble a lot.
I hardly ever see people anymore except for my husband so my social skills are suffering for it. While I don't have trouble constructing sentences at normal speed while typing, for some reason it's harder and harder to put them together while speaking. Though, much as I'd love to blame that on the waning social skills, I think it's more tied to the slightly noticeable mental medication fog. That stuff randomly drugs me up anyway (though not as often as before) but when they upped my Seroquel from 400mg to 600mg, it got harder to speak properly and now I'm up to 800 so...
Oh, I'm an unintentional mimic. I pick up habits or whatever. Um... I'm not sure how to give a good example of it though. It's little things. Except when I sing, that's really obvious, the pronunciation, the accents, all that jazz.
I bow. It drives the hubby nuts but did amusing the woman at the noodle soup place. I know I didn't always do it, but I guess at some point I decided it was a polite thing to do and started doing it. See, I'm really big on being polite, though not to the point of telling blatant lies. There's better ways to be polite.
I procrastinate.
I have low willpower. Well, the hubby says that's not exactly true. He says I have a very strong willpower... about things I want to do. So I guess it's more accurate to say, I'm bad at making myself do things I don't want to do or don't like to do.
I'm sure I could tell you fifty gajillion (exactly that many... I counted! Twice!) more things about me but I was supposed to be sweeping 24 minutes ago.
I hate cleaning.