February 2012
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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“It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest… Superfluous wealth can buy...”
– Thoreau (Walden)  
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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The Shins | Simple Song Memoryhouse | Bonfire Mogwai | The Sun Smells Too Loud The National | England Bowerbirds | Human Hands Bon Iver | Holocene Iron & Wine | Naked As We Came Wir Sind Helden | Lass uns verschwinden Karen O and the Kids | Igloo M83 | I Guess I’m Floating Local Natives | Cubism Dream Laying down, heart beating fast, feeling dizzy. Too much caffeine in my...
Feb 6th
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There’s nothing like German translation homework and Deutsche Welle podcast to greet the day.  Polishing up on German grammar, carrying on a conversation in German with a professor in a room full of Italian 101B students, looking forward to all the advanced composition and literature, being around other German majors/minors/grad students. I can’t contain this feeling.  Inspiration...
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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It’s already 16:35 and I’m still here in bed recovering. Operation cure this hangover.  Tomorrow: CSULB vs CSUN basketball game @ the Pyramid. Protect home court, 18 consecutive victories.  Translations are definitely starting to get more difficult.  Daniel on Curtis always separating our group: “He’s just spreading the smartness across the room.”   To do: talk...
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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from Mark Twain’s “That Awful German Language”
Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples: Freundschaftsbezeigungen. Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten. Stadtverordnetenversammlungen. These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions. And they are not rare; one can open a German newspaper at any time and see them marching majestically across the page — and if he has any imagination he can see...
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“Laine, why are you taking Italian? Your true love is German!”
– Athena
Jan 24th
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