Do you have any sort of standard format you use, when editing or reading a text?
Like, "I highlight the important parts, and underline the incorrect ones.", or something like that?
In my reading, I switch around a lot. In general I write the meanings on the left and the pronunciation on the right (for vertical text), but I alternate between highlighting things I don't understand, and highlighting things that are important.
It sounds unimportant, but it can be pretty confusing...
I understand that it's recently become your birthday, on your side of the globe
Happy Birthday, William!!
I'm glad you've been fortunate enough to survive another year. Birthdays remind me that you can only go forward in time, which is somewhat scary. At least we're all in the same situation, as humans. You know how I am with my friends, but I hope I'll be in a position to wish you a happy birthday for many years to come.
Anyways, I trust you'll celebrate the day appropriately.
Some of the Japanese community around Gainesville are selling cookies for money to donate to Red Cross to benefit the earthquake victims, so today my language partner and I met up to bake cookies.
...or, should I say, she made some delicious lunch for me while I baked cookies.
In the end we stamped shapes into them, as an aesthetic touch. The results....
If there's one thing that really confuses me, it's people who, after a tragedy, go on and on about it, put up "Support ________" graphics as their facebook pictures, and broadcast the fact that they're praying for the victims, but do nothing that will actually benefit anyone.
But just know that I had no internet access over my travels the past week. (I may share some select photos from that when they are given to me)
New York was filled with fun things to do -- I got to see landmarks and huge buildings and fun stores and art. It was also filthy, crowded and noisy.
Boston was a lovely place, but too cold, and with much less fun things than New York.
In both places, I ate way too much, and way too unhealthily, so now I'm on a frantic health kick.
Either way, it was a really fun trip!
Back to Gainesville, and I'm on my last leg of school... When it gets to the end, I have a really hard time keeping up my attendance. With school, as with most other things, I like to start out strong and wimp out or give up in the end.
It's strawberry season here, so they're selling three containers for only $5.
I heard Ana bought strawberries a week ago, but couldn't finish them by the time I got back, and tried to hide that fact from me (for some reason?) by making lots of strawberry bread for her friends at the last second. Meanwhile, I finished a whole container of them within 2 hours of buying them. Shouldn't I be the one who's ashamed?
My late-lunch break is over -- back to work. It's 4 PM and my classes just ended, and I'm staying out in a cafe in hopes of actually getting some of my piled up schoolwork done.
But I can't complain about schoolwork, or anything else, for that matter. Not with all these unimaginable tragedies around us.
March is a lovely month, and I'm glad it's finally here.
This week I'm trying to prepare for next week's journey -- buying small soap, making maps, eating the perishable food in my fridge, and finishing up as much homework as I can.
I've also got a weird alternating sleep schedule going on -- sleep most of a day, sleep almost none of a day, then most again, then none again, and repeat.
shapes into them, as an aesthetic touch. The results....
