why taking notes on your own life is a good idea

[fox]

Between this morning and just now when I opened my notebook to record a couple more things on my grocery list, I had forgotten a funny thing that happened in class -- but now I remember it, and I will tell you. (With that kind of setup, how could you not laugh?)

The lesson included a dialogue about travel, which besides the traveling vocabulary included subjunctive and conditional forms of verbs -- if I had a lot of money, I would go to Europe in an airplane -- and the professor at one point stopped what she was doing and fetched over her laptop and searched for a bit and then triumphantly showed us what she'd been looking for: a news item about a new Yiddish language GPS device. OMG. :-) It's apparently programmed with (unsurprisingly) mikvahs and kosher restaurants and whatnot, but honestly, I immediately thought of the GPS thingies that talk to you, turn left ahead, take the next exit, recalculating route, and the first thing that came to mind when considering a Yiddish GPS was that I'd put in the destination, and the box would say "Why would you want to go there?"

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[kass]

bwee!