Don't worry, Jeremy, there's life as a nursing home resident, too. The old folks I read to each week have a lot of wisdom, and too few people care to glean what can be found in those hallways. Congrats on crossing the hurdle of Spanish dreaming!
[submitted on 15 Dec 02]
Dear J - maybe you've been influenced by the spate of articles last month on a "killer" gray squirrel that was terrorizing residents of a small town in the U.K.--normal size squirrels, but very aggressive. I don't know how that issue was resolved. Maybe you can write the ending.
[submitted on 15 Dec 02]
Mr. Carter
Rock out, Mr. Peterson!
The first time I dreamt in another language, I couldn't understand what anyone was saying to me, but I did know that they were speaking the languages I was studying. Jerks, all of them.
Some time ago I related this story to someone who spoke and studied far more languages than I, trying to impress her with the profundity of my talent, that my sleeping self knew the language better than my waking self. She scoffed, saying "Yeah, I used to get anxiety dreams, too, when I was starting Mandarin." I didn't get a kiss that night.
Back here in the land of the conditionally free, the home of the brav-ado, the semester is almost to an end, as is my interest in purportedly sophisticated study of children's literature. Criminy, folks--give it a rest! Borogoves are mimsy, and that's that.
[submitted on 18 Dec 02]
The first time I dreamt in another language, I couldn't understand what anyone was saying to me, but I did know that they were speaking the languages I was studying. Jerks, all of them.
Some time ago I related this story to someone who spoke and studied far more languages than I, trying to impress her with the profundity of my talent, that my sleeping self knew the language better than my waking self. She scoffed, saying "Yeah, I used to get anxiety dreams, too, when I was starting Mandarin." I didn't get a kiss that night.
Back here in the land of the conditionally free, the home of the brav-ado, the semester is almost to an end, as is my interest in purportedly sophisticated study of children's literature. Criminy, folks--give it a rest! Borogoves are mimsy, and that's that. [submitted on 18 Dec 02]