Blog: Slightly wonked due to a hacker. Bastard. Host is cool, providing on-site visits and discussions of poetry. Also, she fixed the blog. Mostly. Last update along these lines lost to the digital ether. Good riddance, I say.
Vitaly: Got married recently. Yay! Nice wedding, very traditional, right down to the break-dancing-Brad-Pitt-look-alike rabbi.
Kiki: Now engaged. About damn time. She and Raphael have only been dating for eight and a half years.
Erin McKeown: Free show at South Street Seaport past Thursday. Excellent music, as always. Open air = poor acoustics but great breeze. Too much sitting, not enough dancing.
Visitations: Something Positive went pro; creator-dude Randy got mad donations and quit his job to do the comic. That's cool. Also, Bekah started a livejournal. Its bilingualness astounds me. Go be astounded too.
Lena: What I said I'd write: Everything she says about why she and I should not be together makes perfect sense. But my life bleeds fiction and makes no sense, so there. Plus, I love fairy tales and happily-ever-afters.
Mother: In hospital for non-serious, non-diabetes problems. Yeesh.
Borges: My current reading. Witty and self-deprecating. Major images are mirrors, labyrinths and knife-fights. Very cool.
Saved: A movie. Pokes fun at very religious types. Funny as hell. Go see it. I want to see it again. And own it on DVD.
Work: Increasingly less busy. Or decreasingly busy. Whichever. Yay.
School: Registration papers to arrive... soon?
Writing: It's June. Leave me the fuck alone.
Back to a regular schedule presently.
Comments (12)
Usually the bilingualism pisses people off. Thanks.
Should we bug you in July (i.e. tomorrow) about writing? Will you bug me tomorrow about doing my summer research?
Hi and best to your mom.
Posted by Bekah | June 30, 2004 1:04 PM
Posted on June 30, 2004 13:04
Only thing that gets me about your lingualism, Bekah, is that it's "bi" instead of "multi" - it'd be much cooler if you were posting in like six languages.
Erm... Bug me about writing in a few weeks. I should have something interesting to say by then. I hope.
Posted by Jason | June 30, 2004 2:17 PM
Posted on June 30, 2004 14:17
good to see you are back to writing at least in your blog :)
what languages are you proficient in jason?
Posted by gus | June 30, 2004 3:07 PM
Posted on June 30, 2004 15:07
Sadly, I'm only fluent in English. I know enough Japanese to understand about a third of most anime I watch, but even that ability is fading fast. I really do need to kick up my language study - there's at least four languages I could learn that I'd find it helpful to be able to use on a regular basis.
Posted by Jason | July 1, 2004 7:59 AM
Posted on July 1, 2004 07:59
And what languages are those?
Some time ago i read in an article that knowing 2 or more languages helped "train" your brain and so it slows down the aging of it.
I'll see if i can find it
Posted by gus | July 1, 2004 11:51 AM
Posted on July 1, 2004 11:51
Japanese, Russian, Spanish and French. I could probably stand to learn Hebrew, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and German, too. Not to mention re-learning Latin.
I read the article you're talking about, by the way. One of them, at any rate. There was a whole slew of similar articles in various papers a few weeks back and google news linked to them all. Yeah, they said that being fluent (as in "being able to think in") multiple languages slows down senility. Of course, so does reading or playing chess - anything that could be called "mental exercise."
Posted by Jason | July 1, 2004 2:52 PM
Posted on July 1, 2004 14:52
well i like reading as well as playing chess so perhaps my brain muscle is well excersised :)
i'm also interested in learning french as quite a few of my friends speak it, and well i like to think i can hold my own on english :)
Posted by gus | July 1, 2004 3:57 PM
Posted on July 1, 2004 15:57
So what is the matter with very religious types? I mean come on if you have a problem with me that doesnt involve my bastardazation of the american language you should just come right on out and say it .....
So any way send my love and prayers to your mom and your fairy tale believeing ass too i geuss
Posted by Zach | July 1, 2004 7:21 PM
Posted on July 1, 2004 19:21
Sweet! I speak five! (German, Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese and a liiiiitle tiny bit of Chinese and Latin.) Does that make me immortal???
I could also post in Japanese, but it's not an Indo-European language...and my Russian font doesn't work on livejournal. :-(
Posted by Bekah | July 1, 2004 10:39 PM
Posted on July 1, 2004 22:39
BTW, while being fluent in several languages ("being able to think in", feh, I *dream* in them) may slow senility, it speeds up eccentricity.
Posted by Bekah | July 1, 2004 10:43 PM
Posted on July 1, 2004 22:43
Gus, I think senility's pretty far off for you. Your English is definitely a-ok and you're no worse at chess than I am (better, really).
Zach, you need to see Saved. You'd get a kick out of it. But you'd also get a little defensive about it. Which would only make me laugh more.
Bekah, it's a damn pity your other fonts don't work in livejournal. I'd love to see you posting in Japanese - it'd help my own study of the language out, I'm sure. Not to mention the Russian. No comment on your eccentricity, though...
Posted by Jason | July 1, 2004 11:59 PM
Posted on July 1, 2004 23:59
Until I'm rich, I'm just "weird".
Posted by Bekah | July 2, 2004 8:01 AM
Posted on July 2, 2004 08:01