Recent Entries

• On knowing I even exist

  November 27, 2023

  I think I am making an executive decision. However far I get in learning Japanese characters in the next 11 weeks is a bonus but I don't feel like putting myself under the pressure of setting any particular goals. With Spanish and Irish already it's a lot even if it is a different kind of…

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• Ah, feeling better finally with yoga…

  November 26, 2023

  Oh, wow. I am lying in bed (i mo leaba?) after my yoga session and I feel incredible like it is everything I have been needing for so long but I don't even think to try it until my body tells me it is almost too late. I know that my Irish is probably wrong…

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• Yoga

  November 26, 2023

  I did more flashcards today. I finally caught up with my Spanish and Irish flashcards so in the next couple days I can start reading in Spanish and picking up more new words and doing some more Irish grammar study... and by the way, when I saw all the conjugations just of the verb 'feic',…

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• A few Irish words

  November 25, 2023

  'Listening to' in Irish is 'ag éisteacht le'. It reminds me a little of German words like that for ice cream and day. The Irish words for ice cream, uachtar reoite, is great, as is the Irish word for day, lá, but so is the Irish word for evening, tráthnóna. Sometimes Irish reminds me of…

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• Aislingeach

  November 24, 2023

  Well, it is Thanksgiving, or it was until a couple hours ago. We went to a place at a train station that served a buffet with plenty of vegetarian options. I am stuffed from eating too much not just today but the last few days... and I don't really think I am as stuffed as…

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• This past week

  November 22, 2023

  I think I will add a couple more day to week one to give myself a little running start but otherwise this is the end of the first week of my master plan to take over the world (or at least inhabit a little more real estate in my own mind)! It has been a…

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• Níl aeon leid agam…

  November 22, 2023

  There was not a possibility to get a passport appointment until the morning of my trip and I was leaving at like 5 AM anyway so that was not going to work and now I am left wondering what to do; so I will get the money back, though it doesn't please me much as…

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• Plans in the air

  November 22, 2023

  Sometimes there is existential anxiety and sometimes it is like your passport is nowhere to be found because someone other than yourself entrusted themselves to remember where they kept it because they knew you would be needing it so they kept it 'safe' which means it is lost and nowhere to be fo...

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• A quick Irish lesson

  November 20, 2023

  I thought I would use the Feynman technique: trying to explain something you learned so simply a small child could understand it. I don't think I simplified quite that much but these are some of my early observations of Irish language. In Irish, life, beatha, is a word that sounds like Baja in Sp...

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