ahhhhh i get to see emily and jeana todaaaaay!

[waking_dream04]

(a) feeling so much better.  a lady in my class said that she had noticed me improving in my reading/sundry yiddish skillz.  well, she didn't say skillz.  i wish she had.  hmm.  she lives in long island but is debating moving into the dorms due to long commute

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[adolph_loos]

Um...Tracy...I'm pretty sure that nowhere in classical repertoire are there saxophones.

[waking_dream04]

that is not what i meant. i also dislike jazz music. i know there are no saxophones in classical music. then i would like it even less. i am very stubborn, i only like music other people categorize as bad. what they classify as art is boring/bad/distracting/makes me naushus. that is spelled wrong because i couldn't figure out how in hell it is supposed to be spelled. so deal with it. jazz music makes my stomach hurt, anyway.

p.s. i would have a crush on you if you got your hair cut that short. oh wait... i already do. ummm.

[punkerdoodle]

Nauseous.

A friend back at school nicknamed me "Webster." :)

[sheyvah]

What you might want to try doing is listening to Yiddish music. If it distracts you, at least you'll get a better feel for the language. My theory is that, if you are listening to music in your original language, your mind is so busy dealing with linguistic input in that part of the brain, that it detracts from your ability to think with the post-critical age part of the brain. In other words, you think English, which makes it harder to think Yiddish. I've been taking Yiddish for two years and Hebrew for 5, and it's only now that I feel comfortable listening to one while working in the other. As for English, I haven't even tried it except for stuff that I know I can ignore (i.e. a CD with 8 Hebrew songs and two English). If you want, I can lend you some CDs.

Actually, Yiddish is the indie/hippie version of Middle High (10th C) German. It just has a lot of Hebrew/Aramaic vocab. I'm so glad that I knew a Germanic language (English) and Hebrew before I started. It makes learning vocabulary that much easier.

[adiicsat]

can i, like, date your sister? cause i'm lonely. not because my mother thinks she's the perfect candidate for me. really.

i really ought not to post this.

[waking_dream04]

she's rather young for you, i dare say. besides, she already has a lanky, awkward, acne-covered fifteen-year-old boyfriend. tell your mother i'm sorry.

[adiicsat]

but i like got the perfect line going for your sister. she'll love it, i'm sure.
here it goes:
http://justice.loyola.edu/~mcoffey/ce/war2/Odempis4.wav

[kamerasutra]

i have a ton of music without words.
what kind do you want, specifically?

[shabonmerc]

You could try bluegrass. Nickel Creek has a lot of v. pretty instrumentals, such as "ode to a butterfly" and "smoothie song."