I have been instantly attracted, but it seems like nobody has returned the favor yet. Shir, while I was reading that post, I pictured myself writing it in Hebrew(Which I couldn't...I don't know any. But my Spanish is fairly decent and still I don't think I could get on a Spanish-language board and be colloquial with native speakers like you do in English.)

Treat it as a date-date, and I'll spend the two hours with Sir David Attenborough's narration in my head.

On which note: it is now less than seventeen hours before I see Sir David Attenborough in person!

Huh. My iPhone recognises "Attenborough". Well done, thou good and faithful item of telephony.

Shir, while I was reading that post, I pictured myself writing it in Hebrew

Oh, that's lovely.

But my Spanish is fairly decent and still I don't think I could get on a Spanish-language board and be colloquial with native speakers like you do in English.

Thank you. I know I have some mistakes I'll never catch, but writing here (and in other places) in English surely helps.

I admit: once upon a time I spent a lot more time on trying to think in English and only then writing it down. Sentence formation, multiple spelling checks, Googling idioms to make sure I'm not abusing them too much, you name it.

Couple of years after that, English and Hebrew started to mix and mingle in my mind (Hebrew and Arabic did the same, but they're very similar.) I blend English into my Hebrew. And I know I don't think like a native speaker in English sentence formation when I try to think just in English. So I started to get lazy. To base myself mostly on regular-new thinking that is not Hebrew nor English. What I'm trying to say - it might have been Hebrew formation under the English letters, for all I know.

(Again, I have no idea why English speakers need so many Goddamn tenses in their grammar. Past, present, future. Isn't that enough for you, people? It makes me re-read every paragraph I write in English and go "OK. Let's make sure everything's in place. X action started in the past and goes on to the present, and might end in the future, and I refer to that other action and started in the past, stopped in the present and we want to revive it in the future". It's fucking-Twister-tenses time, that's what it is. I still handle conditionals quite poorly - they're very different from the conditional sentences in Hebrew.)

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On which note: it is now less than seventeen hours before I see Sir David Attenborough in person!

A very worthy note indeed, bt. Thank him for me. He saved me a lot of time when I started telling my dates about him and the consequences of his narration on our meeting. I should call it the Attenborough mating test.

And then I say to the interested party, if interested, that they might as well treat it as a date, but I'm not gonna play along well with that - I'm just gonna meet and see if we can have fun together, that's all. Treat it as a date-date, and I'll spend the two hours with Sir David Attenborough's narration in my head.

I don't understand. What's a date-date, and what's wrong with it? I'm doubtlessly being too naive here, but it's a mutual evaluation event, where most guys feel they have to foot the bill, and some assholes (who are probably not the ones who made it this far) assume that it's a transaction for nookie. Is that what you think a date-date is?

(Again, I have no idea why English speakers need so many Goddamn tenses in their grammar. Past, present, future. Isn't that enough for you, people? It makes me re-read every paragraph I write in English and go "OK. Let's make sure everything's in place. X action started in the past and goes on to the present, and might end in the future, and I refer to that other action and started in the past, stopped in the present and we want to revive it in the future". It's fucking-Twister-tenses time, that's what it is. I still handle conditionals quite poorly - they're very different from the conditional sentences in Hebrew.)

When I was studying Hebrew, I had a similar sort of "What is up with all these tenses?" issue, compounded by the genders. Like, OK, in this tense the masculine and feminine second-person singular are the same, but in this other tense, the masculine one is what it seems like it ought to be, but the feminine one looks more like the third-person plural, and then over in this other tense that's switched, and what's with all these extra letters in future tense so that I can barely even recognize the verb anymore?

Not enough sleep. Dog incessantly barking across street enough to justify canicide. Pronouns and will to remain upright gone. Hydration near impossible. Send pronouns and workable lead safe practices that don't involve heat exhaustion.

Crutches suck. I have nasty bruises on the insides of my upper arms already after only a few hours :(

Ha. Tell me something I don't know. I look at Hil advise, and nod. And say again, do not lean your armpits on the crutch tops. Excessive doing that will result in nerve damage and make fingers tingly. Short term will slow/cut off blood flow to said fingers. Long term damage can have tingly fingers kick in at random times. ::whistles innocently:: If you will be on them for some length of time, I HIGHLY recomend the "Canadian Crutches" or "Forearm Crutches" like I use. Much easier to use, you get better support. And no worries about damaged nerves in the armpits.

Shir, don't worry about your English. It's far better than mine, and I'm native! I'm always in awe of multi-lingual people, and wish I had a better knack for it. Apparently I'm pretty good at imitating accents, but learning words, rules, tenses, etc... yeah, not so much.

Today is ABT day at work. WooHoo. American Ballet Theater does classes in the summer at my university, and at the end, put on a show. Today is tech, Friday are the two shows.

This new nasal spray that's supposed to help my ears isn't helping so much. Still full of ow.

Hard day today. I had to take Seamus to the vet (he's totally fine...poor punkin has allergies and licked his tummy almost bald...got a shot...he'll be fine). I was almost there when I realized the last time I was there was 6 months ago and I was picking Mickey's ashes up. Had to cry in the parking lot for awhile.

Aww, ChiKat, super hard. Glad Seamus is okay.