http://www.languages.ttu.edu/german/summer_program.htm

this is just one of the two summer programs i am wanting to participate in next summer. the cost is really really high!

i may have to find something else. maybe there is some kind of internship of some sort available that can give me the same kind of immersion experience...

from e_mob_oi.




well...

ach. ich mag lindenstrasse. ich habe es für schule gesehen. es ist sehr kurz aber nicht so einfach verständlich.

es ist sehr heiss hier wieder. ich habe das AC angemacht. meine eltern habe mit geld hilfen gesagt.

last night i watched das wunder von bern. the vocabulary was a bit beyond me, but i enjoyed it.

Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel.

so. just how does the teenaged child of a liberal easy-going pagan parent manifest rebellion?

by declaring herself a seventh-day adventist. srsly.

of course, it could all be a joke. and she didn't declare herself an adventist to me. but still, there it is.

could be worse though. she could have decided to become a right-wing ultra-conservative o'reilley-worshipping republican...

there is certainly something about spending alone time in the garage, with the smell of oil and grease...

an acquaintance of mine has made me an offer on two of my three bikes.

jack will never be sold. ftn.

but anyways. he comes out tomorrow to look at the two. if i take the offers as they stand, i will lose on the honda a LOT, but gain on the kh400 a little. and no, it does not even out at all.

we'll see how that goes.

i hate being taken advantage of. and concerning the honda i most certainly was, not just once but twice.

it will be good to have the thing that made my heart sick out of my sight for ever.

back to working on jack. but first to walmart for wd-40.

have to escape the toddler noise!

to the garage!

happy birthday, nikola tesla!

was worried about pujo for several hours while he slept next to my son throughout the afternoon. he would not come when i called to him.

but when all the little kids came back from their playdate he was up and his usual self. i think he pulled an all nighter with my son last night...

so he is still fine.

now if my mouse would stop fucking up...

someone on my friend's list made a very significant post this evening. and it dredged up some feelings i haven't wanted to address.

but oh well.

i am a musician.
i have played organ and piano since i was about 7. self-taught.
i have played guitar since i was 13. mostly self-taught.
i have played simple flute(no levers or stops) since i was in my mid 20s. self-taught.
i have played electric bass since 97 or so. self-taught.
i goof around on the djembe now and then.
i have sung since before the age of 4 and at the age of 17 after lettering in high school choir i won a voice scholarship to college.
i have written music at various times since i was 12.
i have performed on various stages in four different states, and one other country. with others and solo.
other musicians remember me by name after i play.
women wipe tears from their eyes after i sing, and their husbands buy me beer.

i own a 12 string acoustic guitar, a six string electric guitar, a six string martin travel guitar, an electric bass guitar, 6 wood flutes of various tunings, a fife, and a djembe. i have a piano in the garage i cannot afford to fix. i also have three amps scattered through out the house.

with all this, which i have mentioned now and then to the people i considered my friends, one would think they'd have enough common sense not to make the comment that the only decent musicians they ever have known were crazy and incapable of doing anything else.

yeah.

and i think about how i would like to perform at pagan pride day. however, it's just an "i'll show them" attitude.

...

i ride just to ride.
and i play just to play.

which is just for the sheer joy of it.

fuck everything and everyone else.

pujo is still okay.

went to the first day of the new semester.

i might pass biology lab! no really!

german is getting exponentially harder. which is fine since the bio lab looks easier. especially since it is all hands on stuff.

and there are four new students in the german class and 6 returnees. us 6 returnees are too well acquainted with each other. we have to get the new kids up to speed.

i'm feeling slightly better.


and pujo is still fine.

stress.

i don't think i'll be leaving the house this weekend. in fact, it's going to be a big struggle just to go to school tomorrow.

i hope hope hope the noise level starts to decrease soon.

please, dear gods, make it stop...

today is the german 2313 final. actually third day of final activities. last thursday was the oral test.
yesterday was the semester project and presentation.
today is the test.

then tomorrow summer semester 2 starts.
and so does my bass lesson gig.

and thursday after school i should be taking a road trip...

it's only for one week.

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it's only for one week.