huh.

[fox]

I just got a message that "Turf" has been nominated in the Children of Time awards. So, um, cool?

I've been exhausted for about 48 hours now. Yesterday I worked from home, which is always more restful than going in, but in the evening I meant to go grocery shopping, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it; and I went to bed around, what, 11pm?, and woke up at noon, and finally hauled myself out at 2pm to send a couple things at the post office and go to the grocery store. Back around 4:30, and I've been kind of parked on the couch since then, and I'm really tired.

Tomorrow, though, I'm totally (a) finishing up yesterday's work and (b) learning to read Hebrew*. (Honest.)


*the alphabet, is all. :-) I've got two alphabets already, so learning a third shouldn't be too hard, should it?

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

That sounds like my day. Maybe there's a low pressure system moving in?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I believe there is. Heard this on the radio when I finally got in the car this afternoon -- but that explains today, not yesterday, really. Anyway I've been feeling very sinusy and tired. Feh.

[samtheeagle.livejournal.com]

What's with the Hebrew? :)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

me: So, Elementary Yiddish II, eh? You'll note that I haven't taken Elementary Yiddish I. I also don't speak any German and I don't read any Hebrew. Is that going to be a problem?

them: Nah, bit of a steep learning curve is all. Come on down!


So the class begins Tuesday morning. I can pick up the first seven lessons gradually as long as I can read the blinking letters. :-)

[samtheeagle.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'll rephrase my question:

What's with the Yiddish?
(Vas ist mit der mamaloshen?)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Aha, see, I'd have understood that question even without the English!, but not without the roman letters. :-)

Okay, the long answer: two years I've had this tuition-remission benefit available, and haven't taken advantage of it. I talked to a guy about getting back on a road toward a doctorate, but I'm not actually even positive I'd want to do that; the general agreement was that taking one class in, like, What They're Up To These Days In Syntax would be a good start, before committing to a whole degree program. But such classes tend to be in the fall, and it's harder to get going in the spring -- and I was having this conversation in September, when it was too late to register for the fall. Still, I thought it was probably better to get into the routine of taking a class along with working full-time before [deciding whether or not I'd be] carrying on with classes that might, academically speaking, matter.

So I was poking around the catalogue, and hey, look, they're offering Yiddish, which they didn't offer at Oxford and I'm pretty sure they didn't at Virginia, and I never had time for at Georgetown. And my existing Yiddish is what I'm going to charitably call "limited" (my great-grandparents spoke it; my grandmother probably understood it; my father never learned), which is becoming less okay with me. (It's a thing with me lately. I'm also trying to learn how to make the handmade lace my grandmother on the other side makes, because she's 89 years old and can't really do it herself anymore, and I want at least one of us to know how to do it before she can't teach us.)