Also, tonight confirmed that I am indeed a bon fide piano snob. I went over to Extreme Bean to study because I was tired of being in my apartment all day. It worked quite well until someone started playing attempting Scott Joplin ragtime pieces. The piano teacher in me couldn’t tune him out. It was [...]
Archive for July, 2007
good mocha vs. bad joplin
Posted in life, music on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
the milk drinks the girl?
Posted in culture on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is probably not funny if you’re a native German speaker, but it is somehow amusing to a native English speaker who isn’t used to gendered nouns. In one of the exercises in my German reading course, I’m supposed to replace all the nouns in the sentence “Das Mädchen trinkt die Milch” (“the girl drinks [...]
i can’t hear you, you’re breaking up!
Posted in life on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Overheard in Borders bookstore earlier this evening: a guy breaking up with his girlfriend via cell phone in the psychology section. There were tears. There were long explanations. There were impassioned pleas for understanding. It was the stuff of movies. Only it was in real life. I’m sure that the girlfriend-turned-ex-girlfriend probably would have more [...]
