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Y'all way past the beauty sleep thing, trust me.

Today's China update: I saw my first squat toilet in China! Fortunately, I checked the next stall over and that had the other kind of toilet, so I was spared from having to use it. Bringing tissues and hand sanitizer was handy, though, as there was no TP or soap.I've refined my answer to "is there anything you don't eat" to "anything with the eyes still on it" and "anything that's still alive". Still haven't been confronted with these yet, but that's because I tell people up front. The little kid next to me at lunch was eating a crispy...

srah - Wednesday, 24 September 2008 - 7:51 PM
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J'y gagne, à cause de la couleur du blé (Mardi)

J'ai commencé un article en arabe aujourd'hui, mais l'arabe me fait mal à la tête et je suis trop fatiguée pour y continuer. Demain l'arabe, alors! Comme je suis fatiguée, je ne vais même pas vous dire quelque chose d'originale - je vous lis deux extraits du Petit Prince. Et en plus ce sont des extraits que j'ai déjà écrit sur ce blog. La paresse! Les articles de mardi:Canucks unite (anglais/français canadien)whubistuble whubile yubou wubork (ubbidubbi)Merde. (français) Segunda dia de Semana de Lenguages (espagnol)Beichten von einer Ausländerin (allemand)Language week Tuesday - German (allemand)body language (espagnol)01/Jul/2 008: Ein Bisschen Islay Auf...

srah - Tuesday, 1 July 2008 - 10:45 PM
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No family and too much money makes Mrs Winchester something something.

Sunday, March 23 Looking back at the pictures, I can believe we packed so much stuff into one day! It seems like this had to have been spread over several days! Cari and I got up bright and early Sunday morning to go to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. We thought we were going to be the only people out being touristy on Easter Sunday but there turned out to be a sizable tour group. This was one of my favorite parts of the trip, I think, just because it was something I knew nothing about before going...

srah - Tuesday, 8 April 2008 - 8:22 PM
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I'm just a girl who cain't say no

One really exciting thing about the writers' strike is that I will be freed from my enslavement to the TV. Once they run out of new episodes, I won't have to worry about what to watch and what to tape and what to watch or not watch online. I started to think, at first, that this would be a really exciting time for me, so that instead of this¹:   Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 8 Shouty Man Shouting Into a Megaphone Shoutily (ABC) The Barney and Marshall Show, Also With Other Characters (CBS) A Very Special "Social...

srah - Saturday, 17 November 2007 - 4:14 PM
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The Language Week champions!

Language Week 2007 is at an end! Thanks to all of you for taking the challenge and blogging in another language! I hope you got something out of the experience. Please take a moment to look at each other's Language Week posts. We have a lot of languages in our midst! tiff (French)Elisabeth (French - and a few others)christina (German)Kinuk (Polish, French, German, Japanese)Dixie (German)Ms. M (Italian)Hilda (Spanish)ola (Polish)swissmiss (German)Anne (French, Hungarian, Polish)Elemmaciltur (German)Twango (Italian)BoonzaierBabe (Afrikaans)Betsy (German, French, Dutch)Chillmost (German)moe (Spanish)heather (Spanish, Polish)Stephen (French)bentleywg (Spanish)Ceridwyn2 (Spanish)A (French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Arabic) If I've left anyone (or any language!)...

srah - Saturday, 30 June 2007 - 9:02 AM
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You say oyster and I say erster¹

I was surprised, as we started our descent into Houston, to see lots and lots of forests of green trees. Everything I know about Texas I learned from the movies, so I expected it to be all brown and sandy with little scrubby bushes, rather than huge forests of green trees. I expected it to be more like the Australian Outback, which I am also very familiar with from my vast experience of... watching The Thorn Birds miniseries once. Also, I didn't see Rock Hudson or James Dean or even Sal Mineo. All of my lifetime experience with Texas (2.5...

srah - Wednesday, 13 June 2007 - 11:30 PM
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The pen is mightier

The latest news from my Arabic class is that I got my HIGHEST STEPCOUNT DAY EVER yesterday. Wait, no, that's not related. But I did. The latest news from my Arabic class is that I have a crush on the "calligraphy professor" who lives in our textbook's accompanying DVDs. He's a scholarly, bespectacled type, who knows how to wield a pen. Ah, how I love a man with stylish writing implements! Yes, I am insane. As we learn to connect more letters, I am learning more and more words that can be made out of those letters. So now I...

srah - Thursday, 14 September 2006 - 12:43 PM
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Blah blah blah here's some stuff about me that you probably already knew

I've seen this meme around a few places, but now I've been directly tagged. What I was doing ten years ago Hmmm. Summer of 1995. I would have been 14, nearly 15, and would have been going into 10th grade in a few weeks' time. This was a particularly unmemorable year for me, unfortunately. I can't remember doing anything remotely interesting in 10th grade! And summers were even worse! What I was doing five years ago I was about to turn 20, so I would have been preparing to leave for Grenoble. I may have been applying for my visa,...

srah - Monday, 8 August 2005 - 7:49 AM
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Reader Poll Monday Tuesday

I'm not a regular reader of Lasadh, but I liked the questions......

srah - Tuesday, 15 March 2005 - 11:28 AM
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'Ze fast and ze furious!'

Now that I'm sober, I can tell you about last night's meal in more detail, without the danger that reviewing it bloggily would cause me to review it vomitally. Becky and I went to the nice restaurant in town, sort of on a whim, after discussing how much we both like food. Becky told me that although she'd never been there, she'd heard that they don't like Americans, so we had to be on our best behavior and I had to do all of the talking because we'd have to speak French. We went in and asked for a table...

srah - Friday, 25 June 2004 - 4:05 AM
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Wasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabi!

On the way to work this morning, I picked myself up some sushi for lunch. The sushi place where I went serves eleven-piece sushi boxes. Why eleven? Not ten, not quite a dozen. Is eleven a lucky number in Japan? It's made even weirder by the fact that most of their sushi boxes are labeled as 1/2 and 1/2... or, you know, 5 avocado and 6 crab. In a restaurant, I always feel compelled to eat with chopsticks and make a mess of myself. Luckily no one is in my little desk-pool at work today, so I am able to...

srah - Thursday, 6 May 2004 - 12:59 PM
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Unconscious Mutterings

My free associations are in the continuation. Now go play along in your own blog!...

srah - Sunday, 28 March 2004 - 9:32 AM
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Me so soupy

David and I went to Sushi.Come for lunch today. I had never been there before and had actually only been to a Japanese restaurant once in my life. I had California rolls, which were garnished with fish eggs. When is it caviar and when is it just fish eggs? I don't care. I love the little buggers. I imagine that most people just swallow them down, but I love to bite each little one and feel the tiny crunches between my teeth. I truly am the Queen of the Chewers, which explains why I only ate about four of my...

srah - Wednesday, 26 November 2003 - 2:36 PM
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Wanderlust

Why does Lebanon sound so fascinating and alluring and exotic and romantic and Beirut just sound scary? Someone just came in asking about study abroad opportunities in Lebanon. I want to go to Lebanon. I want to go to Iceland. I want to go to Cambodia. I want to go to South Africa. I want to go to Ireland. I want to go to Peru. I want to go to Bulgaria. I want to go to Japan. Why am I here? Why am I not trotting the globe?...

srah - Monday, 17 November 2003 - 3:06 PM
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Facts of the matter

I work in the Overseas Opportunities Office. I am the peer advisor responsible for teaching abroad information. One of the largest teaching abroad opportunities is the Japanese Exchange & Teaching program, a teaching assistantship sponsored by the Japanese government. The Japanese Exchange & Teaching program is abbreviated "JET". Every time I hear the word "JET", I think "I thought the major was a lady suffragette." Seriously. Every time. Make it stop....

srah - Monday, 27 October 2003 - 3:28 PM
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Tales from srah's bladder

Warning: this post should not be read by... anyone....

srah - Friday, 24 October 2003 - 2:27 PM
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Dream

While we were studying last night, Mr B------- kept plying me with enormous glasses of water. When I remarked upon this, he said that he was trying to flush the evils out of me. The evils being washed out of me seem to be taking the form of insane Japanese-themed dreams, which is quite understandable, considering I a) just watched Lost in Translation b) spent the whole weekend watching this stupid video over and over again and c) watched Spirited Away last night (we certainly are a serious study group). So last night, the evils left my body/mind in the...

srah - Thursday, 9 October 2003 - 1:19 PM
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'Lip my stockings!'

Lost in Translation was really good. Roommate only thought it was "okay", but I quite enjoyed it. It didn't really have a plot, but some movies are about plot and others are about character study, experiences and the development of a relationship. Bill Murray was great. I want to go to Japan....

srah - Monday, 6 October 2003 - 7:59 AM
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The Friday Five

My kinda Friday Five! 1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country? My last trip out of the state was our trip to Virginia, New Jersey and New York. Before that, it was France, and before that, a very short trip to Belgium. 2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling? It once took me 29 hours to get from Grenoble to Aberdeen. I participated in an English quiz night. I met John Hannah... 3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would...

srah - Friday, 8 August 2003 - 9:30 AM
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The Thursday This-or-That?

1) DVD or VHS? DVD! My family watches everything with subtitles on, because we never understand anything anyone says. We are movie-readers. I like to watch things in Spanish with French subtitles or in Japanese with German subtitles or in Swedish with Pig Latin subtitles. My family prefers English All Around. I like DVDs for the extras, too. 2) Best Literary/Movie Villan: Voldemort (Harry Potter) or Sauron (LoTR)? Awww, they're two different species. I suppose I prefer Voldemort because I know more about him and who he is and why he went bad. I'm sure if I read some of...

srah - Tuesday, 22 July 2003 - 7:47 AM
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