Back in Bed-Stuy, ready to be awesome
Jan. 4th, 2009 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trieduntureBack in New York, astonished at the amount of mess my roommates made in my absence, hungry and in possession of a jar of Jet-Puf, and heck-bent on arranging my room back to the way it was before my mom came and straightened it up.
I was a total tool and tried to charge my iPod on the eee before the bus left, so I was left with no books and an empty iPod for the 4 hour drive. I thought a lot about what my first totally awesome thing this year would be, and I decided on writing a letter to someone I hadn't seen in a long time, which is a good exercise, I think.
I started composing this letter in my head to my childhood best friend, and before I knew it, I was crying crying crying. Geez! How come nostalgia and everything has suddenly snuck up on me? I just hope the guy next to me didn't think I was a loony.
Anyway, here's a tentative list of Awesome Things I Will Do:
1. Write a letter to my childhood best friend, who I haven't spoken to in maybe 8 years.
2. Learn to say hello in 50 languages.
3. Go on an edible plants tour of Central Park.
4. Learn JAVA.
5. Make a dried leaf & flower book for mom, because she likes that kind of crap.
6. Bake homemade bread and bring it into the office.
7. Learn a song on the guitar. A real guitar, not Wii Music or Guitar Hero.
8. Go to a country bar.
9. Take a shop lesson and learn basic woodworking.
10. Watch a Spanish movie without subtitles and actually follow along.
11. Buy a stranger a drink.
12. Buy one of those Rosetta Stone packages for a crazy language I'll never actually need to speak and start learning it.
13. Make French food, which has scared me since I realized I can't pronounce any of the dishes' names.
14. Go see Niagara Falls.
15. Try to get an Exquisite Corpse project started.
16. Make a snowman.
That's what I've got so far. Thanks for all your suggestions, guys! I think this is a good start.
YAY 2009. YOU WILL NOT SUCK, I PROMISE.
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Date: 2009-01-05 12:23 am (UTC)Like the list btw, though must admit I'm having trouble agreeing with your determination to make sure 2009 is good. Probably just my being ill and grumpy.
The Lady 529
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Date: 2009-01-05 12:36 am (UTC)Btw hello in Dutch is Hallo. French is 'Allo.
Latin is Heus (?)
;P
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Date: 2009-01-05 11:53 am (UTC)Salut
Date: 2009-01-09 12:26 am (UTC)That's "hello" in french. "Bonjour" means "good morning/afternoon". And we say "Allo" when we answer the phone.
In spanish : hello = hola
By the way, your writing is wonderful !
Yayapsbride
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Date: 2009-01-05 02:24 am (UTC)12. Buy one of those Rosetta Stone packages for a crazy language I'll never actually need to speak and start learning it.
Oo, go you! I love the idea of increasing your wordpower in random languages. (Watching "Firefly" made me want to learn Chinese. *blush*)
Awesome list of awesomeness is, needless to say, awesome. I probably should come up with a similar list to persuade myself to Procrastinate Less, but I'm not sure I have the oomph.
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Date: 2009-01-05 07:00 am (UTC)French: Bonjour
Italian: Buon Giorno
Maltese: Bonju
Zulu: Sawubona
Afrikaans: Hallo
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Date: 2009-01-05 11:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-05 12:01 pm (UTC)Ann-YONG ha-say-YO = hello in Korean
Sah-LAHM ah-lay-koom = hello in EA (sah-BAH el KHER--make sure you get guttural on the last syllable!--is also like "good day")
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Date: 2009-01-07 08:35 pm (UTC)Oh, and Java is evil. Learn Ruby or PHP.
...no secret hidden agendas here, I swear it :P
And lastly, it struck me suddenly that I never added you to my friends list. I think I am going to do that right now.