Apr. 26th, 2006 10:56 pm
time is slipping by...
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My Dale Carnegie class is almost over. Next week will be our last session, and I've decided to make double-fudge chocolate brownies for everyone. It's been a fun ride, and very useful, but I'm looking forward to having my Wednesday nights back.
My cell phone number is dead. My new cell phone is coming in this week. I decided to sign up with Sprint for their "fair and flexible" plan, because I can get 400 anytime minutes and my nights start at seven instead of nine, which will definitely be a relief. I can call people across the country now! I considered joining Cingular for a few days, because that's what Mark is under, but their plans are ridiculously priced, and don't offer any really good benefits.
I've decided to accept some more responsibilities at work, now that the other person is gone. Man, people are hitting me up for dirt about his departure, but I can't. It would be disrespectful to him anyway. My manager is considering hiring someone for my position (and we'll see what happens to me later).
I finished Selected Fictions by Jorges Luis Borges last week, and started Selected Poems by Jorges Luis Borges this week. I have become so anal retentive about my reading that I'm actually reading the poems in Spanish first, then the English translation. Needless to say, I haven't gotten very far, but I think I get a better sense of the poetry anyway. Since I'm forcing myself to re-read the lines until they make sense in both languages, it slows me down enough to take it in.
I'm the same way with manga. I prefer reading manga in Chinese, not because I'm trying to show off or anything, but because I read English too quickly, and I'll gloss over the pictures in order to get to the next scrap of dialogue. If I'm reading in Chinese, I'll spend my time figuring out the characters and their dialogues from the drawn actions.
My Dale Carnegie class is almost over. Next week will be our last session, and I've decided to make double-fudge chocolate brownies for everyone. It's been a fun ride, and very useful, but I'm looking forward to having my Wednesday nights back.
My cell phone number is dead. My new cell phone is coming in this week. I decided to sign up with Sprint for their "fair and flexible" plan, because I can get 400 anytime minutes and my nights start at seven instead of nine, which will definitely be a relief. I can call people across the country now! I considered joining Cingular for a few days, because that's what Mark is under, but their plans are ridiculously priced, and don't offer any really good benefits.
I've decided to accept some more responsibilities at work, now that the other person is gone. Man, people are hitting me up for dirt about his departure, but I can't. It would be disrespectful to him anyway. My manager is considering hiring someone for my position (and we'll see what happens to me later).
I finished Selected Fictions by Jorges Luis Borges last week, and started Selected Poems by Jorges Luis Borges this week. I have become so anal retentive about my reading that I'm actually reading the poems in Spanish first, then the English translation. Needless to say, I haven't gotten very far, but I think I get a better sense of the poetry anyway. Since I'm forcing myself to re-read the lines until they make sense in both languages, it slows me down enough to take it in.
I'm the same way with manga. I prefer reading manga in Chinese, not because I'm trying to show off or anything, but because I read English too quickly, and I'll gloss over the pictures in order to get to the next scrap of dialogue. If I'm reading in Chinese, I'll spend my time figuring out the characters and their dialogues from the drawn actions.
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