fools in love
is there any other kind of pain
fools in love
is there any creature more pathetic
fools in love
never knowing when they've lost the game
fools in love
gently hold each others' hands forever
fools in love
gently tear each other limb from limb
(Inara George)
Monday, November 22, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Nov.
It's November!
I go to classes! I practice interpretation! I'm doing translations faster! I try to improve my note-taking skills! I do tests! I sight-translate! I am still writing stupid speeches for Public Speaking! I clean the bathroom sometimes! I go climbing!
So, pretty much same ol' same ol'... Perki has come and gone, I hang out with my roommates and my friends from school, we drink and dance at bars and last weekend we played board games. I'm still pretty good at Taboo... unless I miss the cultural referent, which happens with some frequency.
American Thanksgiving is coming up but I'm staying here and hopefully ingesting some turkey at Shannon's house. I just bought my ticket to go home to Yellowknife on Dec. 15 and more is in the works for me to be in Tel Aviv before New Year's. I have all of January off and am hoping to spend it there, but poor Perki's got classes and exams all through January, so there will be plenty of time for me to read and watch TV, which is of course all I do on vacation.
Yay! Semester ending soon! I hope it ends well...
I go to classes! I practice interpretation! I'm doing translations faster! I try to improve my note-taking skills! I do tests! I sight-translate! I am still writing stupid speeches for Public Speaking! I clean the bathroom sometimes! I go climbing!
So, pretty much same ol' same ol'... Perki has come and gone, I hang out with my roommates and my friends from school, we drink and dance at bars and last weekend we played board games. I'm still pretty good at Taboo... unless I miss the cultural referent, which happens with some frequency.
American Thanksgiving is coming up but I'm staying here and hopefully ingesting some turkey at Shannon's house. I just bought my ticket to go home to Yellowknife on Dec. 15 and more is in the works for me to be in Tel Aviv before New Year's. I have all of January off and am hoping to spend it there, but poor Perki's got classes and exams all through January, so there will be plenty of time for me to read and watch TV, which is of course all I do on vacation.
Yay! Semester ending soon! I hope it ends well...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
it's October!
It's October! Today I have my first ever graded interpretation, from English to Spanish - in my LIFE! Isn't that weird? Nothing like freaking myself out a little bit twenty minutes before I'm scheduled to do it. :)
I went camping on the weekend! The Outdoor Adventure Club or whatever it's called and the rock climbing club joined forces to camp at Pinnacles National Monument, about an hour from Monterey. Much warmer and sunnier than grey Monterey. I rock climbed outside for the first time, which was a bit different... but if I can train up a bit I'd be glad to try it again. I tried three climbs; one I completed; one I got most of the way up; one I completely failed at. It was hard, ok? I'll improve, I promise.
Luckily it wasn't cold camping, but we weren't allowed to have a campfire because of the high danger of forest fires, so we just sat around a little lamp, had chili, beer, and cookies. And tried our best to not get too frustrated with the gigantic group of Chinese-American boy scouts (?) beside us. Who asked us to be quiet at 10pm so they could go to sleep, and then woke us up with yelling at 7am. Classic.
My sweetie is coming in nine days!!!!
Man Diet Coke gets me hyped up... not to mention sweet remixes... well, it's time to get my ass kicked by Esther's evaluation. See you on the other side.
I went camping on the weekend! The Outdoor Adventure Club or whatever it's called and the rock climbing club joined forces to camp at Pinnacles National Monument, about an hour from Monterey. Much warmer and sunnier than grey Monterey. I rock climbed outside for the first time, which was a bit different... but if I can train up a bit I'd be glad to try it again. I tried three climbs; one I completed; one I got most of the way up; one I completely failed at. It was hard, ok? I'll improve, I promise.
Luckily it wasn't cold camping, but we weren't allowed to have a campfire because of the high danger of forest fires, so we just sat around a little lamp, had chili, beer, and cookies. And tried our best to not get too frustrated with the gigantic group of Chinese-American boy scouts (?) beside us. Who asked us to be quiet at 10pm so they could go to sleep, and then woke us up with yelling at 7am. Classic.
My sweetie is coming in nine days!!!!
Man Diet Coke gets me hyped up... not to mention sweet remixes... well, it's time to get my ass kicked by Esther's evaluation. See you on the other side.
Monday, September 27, 2010
sights!
On my run this morning I saw:
1. A middle-aged man, looking a bit down on his luck, sitting on the stoop of a house with his giant pet HAWK.
2. A guy walking his dog with (what I think was) a huge cat sitting on his shoulder.
Pretty sweet...
1. A middle-aged man, looking a bit down on his luck, sitting on the stoop of a house with his giant pet HAWK.
2. A guy walking his dog with (what I think was) a huge cat sitting on his shoulder.
Pretty sweet...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
חומוס
Nick today: "Can you explain to me why hummus is so good? It's like Jesus juice. ... If Jesus was alive, this is what he'd be eating."
I got obsessed with hummus after going to Israel. My roommates got obsessed with hummus after living with me.
I got obsessed with hummus after going to Israel. My roommates got obsessed with hummus after living with me.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
status
Updates:
fourth week of class is starting. My classes are mostly great, my classmates are awesome, and things at "Chateau Van Buren" (our house) are still stellar.
Here at the homestead we've been watching a whole lot of House. I'm still running a few times a week - I'm actually writing this post waiting for my body to stop sweating from my 10k run this morning. Weather's still the same. I went to the rock climbing gym last week too, and with any luck I'll keep going every week or so.
For our interpretation classes we have to meet in practice groups for eight hours each week outside class, and organizing that has been a bit of a pain, but things are coming together. It also means I have less time to waste before getting to my other homework. The groups are fun though: we're always telling each other random stories about ourselves for the other people to interpret, and we laugh a whole lot.
I also joined some of my classmates for a volunteer project that involves translating a monthly stop-human-trafficking bulletin into Spanish. http://www.stopenslavement.org/index.html
Other than that, my main news is that the Perkster bought a flight to come out and visit me before we go to his brother's wedding. He'll get here the night of Oct. 13, I think we'll get to Toronto the night of Thursday the 21st, and then we'll both fly back to our respective homes the day after the wedding, on Monday the 25th. Such a short time and I'll be busy with school... but he's coming!! :)
Ok, showertime!
fourth week of class is starting. My classes are mostly great, my classmates are awesome, and things at "Chateau Van Buren" (our house) are still stellar.
Here at the homestead we've been watching a whole lot of House. I'm still running a few times a week - I'm actually writing this post waiting for my body to stop sweating from my 10k run this morning. Weather's still the same. I went to the rock climbing gym last week too, and with any luck I'll keep going every week or so.
For our interpretation classes we have to meet in practice groups for eight hours each week outside class, and organizing that has been a bit of a pain, but things are coming together. It also means I have less time to waste before getting to my other homework. The groups are fun though: we're always telling each other random stories about ourselves for the other people to interpret, and we laugh a whole lot.
I also joined some of my classmates for a volunteer project that involves translating a monthly stop-human-trafficking bulletin into Spanish. http://www.stopenslavement.org/index.html
Other than that, my main news is that the Perkster bought a flight to come out and visit me before we go to his brother's wedding. He'll get here the night of Oct. 13, I think we'll get to Toronto the night of Thursday the 21st, and then we'll both fly back to our respective homes the day after the wedding, on Monday the 25th. Such a short time and I'll be busy with school... but he's coming!! :)
Ok, showertime!
Monday, August 30, 2010
SCHOOL... AUGH
Orientation is over. I was really sick of it by Friday... so much information and stuff to absorb. I tried to deal with everything they gave us but I fear I'm actually just pretending most of it didn't exist. Our professors extolled us to give school our complete attention, told us we should be reading every spare second, and ALSO that we should start working on our resumes, looking for internships, etc. All of it is one part motivating and one part... holy hell, overwhelming. I guess it'll be better when I have constant contact with my professors through class and hopefully they'll remind us of what we're supposed to be doing.
Yesterday we went SURFING in Santa Cruz! It was my first time. The neighbours that live behind us, Michael and Dave, took us out and hooked us up with rental boards and wetsuits. The water was lovely and cold and I had a great time just paddling around and riding in the occasional wave. (On my knees.) We started at a beginners' beach and the waves disappeared after a while, so we decided to try our luck somewhere else. As Amy was climbing up the slippery concrete steps to get out of the water, a few waves came and knocked her around a bit. She hit her back on the stairs and sliced a couple of her toes. First casualty of the day! We got pizza at Pleasure Point Pizza (frickin' AMAZING) and then went to "The Hook", where Amy stayed out of the water and took pictures from above.
At The Hook we got to see two otters up close, and watch huge pelicans swoop over the water. It was really cool to be near wildlife like that. Unfortunately, there weren't too many waves at that place either and way too many surfers trying to grab them. Finally Dave and Nick tried for the same wave, bailed, got caught up in the whitewash, and Nick got his face beat up with a surfboard fin. He came out bleeding hard with two huge gashes in his left cheek, a small fracture in his jaw and a chipped tooth. We spent a few hours at the hospital getting him stitched up and X-rayed and then drove back home to Monterey. Amy and I got some groceries and meds for him, and he's been drugged up since. It looks pretty ugly - pictures will come eventually. (Probably on Facebook.)
Today we went to the Jewish Food Festival in Carmel. It was sunny, there was music, and there was lots of good food to try. When we got back, though, we kind of fell into a Sunday funk - uuugh not ready for school to start. Or maybe too ready? Either way it's time to get this semester started and see what comes of it. Wish me luck!
Yesterday we went SURFING in Santa Cruz! It was my first time. The neighbours that live behind us, Michael and Dave, took us out and hooked us up with rental boards and wetsuits. The water was lovely and cold and I had a great time just paddling around and riding in the occasional wave. (On my knees.) We started at a beginners' beach and the waves disappeared after a while, so we decided to try our luck somewhere else. As Amy was climbing up the slippery concrete steps to get out of the water, a few waves came and knocked her around a bit. She hit her back on the stairs and sliced a couple of her toes. First casualty of the day! We got pizza at Pleasure Point Pizza (frickin' AMAZING) and then went to "The Hook", where Amy stayed out of the water and took pictures from above.
At The Hook we got to see two otters up close, and watch huge pelicans swoop over the water. It was really cool to be near wildlife like that. Unfortunately, there weren't too many waves at that place either and way too many surfers trying to grab them. Finally Dave and Nick tried for the same wave, bailed, got caught up in the whitewash, and Nick got his face beat up with a surfboard fin. He came out bleeding hard with two huge gashes in his left cheek, a small fracture in his jaw and a chipped tooth. We spent a few hours at the hospital getting him stitched up and X-rayed and then drove back home to Monterey. Amy and I got some groceries and meds for him, and he's been drugged up since. It looks pretty ugly - pictures will come eventually. (Probably on Facebook.)
Today we went to the Jewish Food Festival in Carmel. It was sunny, there was music, and there was lots of good food to try. When we got back, though, we kind of fell into a Sunday funk - uuugh not ready for school to start. Or maybe too ready? Either way it's time to get this semester started and see what comes of it. Wish me luck!
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