February 2012
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It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest… Superfluous wealth can buy...
– Thoreau (Walden)
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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...
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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...
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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...
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January 2012
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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...
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Laine, why are you taking Italian? Your true love is German!
– Athena