Vacances: parle à mon cul, ma tête est malade.

[issmeinhirn]

I'm having great difficulties slipping into holiday mode. A decent chunk of the day entails an aimless wander about the house, considering a myriad of activities that could be undertaken if I could only decide on one. Due to this indecision on my behalf it has seen me taking naps in the afternoon or heading to bed early

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[jupiter_lies]

The Book of Nothing! I have that on my bookshelf, one of *my* goals to be read over the holidays. So, Barrow?

But Animal Farm is quite good; it's the type of book you can refer back to, that you can use to think about political issues. A lot of it might be pretty clear to you, but it's a good satire that draws a lot of political ideas together.

Languages ... well, I'm biased and would say French, which is hopeless. I assume that you have studied Latin, in which case Greek would probably be useful alongside that, in terms of root words?

Probably those that will be the most useful.

[issmeinhirn]

Oh yeah, book of nothing was fantastic! I won't spoil it for you, but Barrow can really tell a story. The book is very well laid out and incredibly engaging. One of the quotes on my bio comes from it

[jupiter_lies]

well, I'm reading Tale of Two Cities at the moment, so once I'm finished I'll move to Barrow, without a doubt!

French - yeah, I studied it in high school too. I was quite good (considering I went to a public school & didn't get fancy trips to Paris), & although it's slipped I visited Paris for two days when I was over in the UK and picked most of it up again quite rapidly. I'm absolutely the same about the census box! If I had someone to actively converse with, then it would help immensely, but it's very difficult to properly learn by yourself, even with SBS radio and such, you know? It's a fantastic language, and learning it taught me most of the things I know about English.

You never studied Latin? Neither have I, but I would absolutely love to. The Greek then sounds like a good idea, since it's useful in both a practical and interesting way.

[issmeinhirn]

I was never interested in English when I was in High School, so I have no knowledge of our literary greats. I've been wondering where 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' came from. So thank you for bringing yet another book I need to read to my attention.

Ahh, well at least you've been! I grew up in the country. So a huge field trip involved us coming to Melbourne to go to the museum. If I actually get my ass in gear and pull out my French books over the summer we should start up some conversation rudimentaire.

[issmeinhirn]

Do you have study books? I'd consider it, but I've only got rudimentary Japanese stuff here.

Those books aren't on my shelf though! (I guess I can always feed my book addiction).

[ghede]

^^
Kafka on the Shore is great. Actually, any Murakami is good. 1421 is an interesting little "what if..." book, but uses too much circular logic to be compelling enough for my liking. A good read though.

Learn Chinese so that I can get moar practice :P
Or maybe something obscure and useless, like Sochiapan Chinantec whistle-speech.

[issmeinhirn]

Hah! So Esperanto, Akkadian & Coptic aren't obscure enough?

[ghede]

the'yre too common?

Or something :P

MOAR OBSCURE!

bitch

[issmeinhirn]

Well. You do have a point there...

[fragmentdpsyche]

buy a couch

[issmeinhirn]

That's on the list already!