I do late night blogging, not late night partying, and my roommate has left for someplace possibly more interesting than our minimalist room with its bare walls. I can hear the thump of a boom box somewhere, and just a while ago fashionably dressed girls knocked on my door looking for my roommate, but she had already left. We get on well enough, I suppose.
I'm spectacularly bad at names and faces. It's embarrassing.
Highly amusing (to me, at least) Klingon Fairy Tales, from McSweeney's:
"Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears"
"The Three Little Pigs Build an Improvised Explosive Device and Deal With That Damned Wolf Once and for All"
"Old Mother Hubbard, Lacking the Means to Support Herself With Honor, Sets Her Disruptor on Self-Destruct and Waits for the Inevitable"
"Mary Had a Little Lamb. It Was Delicious"
"Little Red Riding Hood Strays Into the Neutral Zone and Is Never Heard From Again, Although There Are Rumors ... Awful, Awful Rumors"
"The Hare Foolishly Lowers His Guard and Is Devastated by the Tortoise, Whose Prowess in Battle Attracts Many Desirable Mates"
Gosh, I miss fangirling with my sister. Small talk does get tedious, especially when you suspect the other party is feigning interest in what you are saying, and when they don't reciprocate as much as you would like.
I'm OK with varying my pitch and inflection and adjusting pronunciation of certain words to sound more American, but I'm reluctant to slur or add glottal stops. Or change my to-MAH-toes to to-MAY-toes. As long as i can be easily understood, is it really necessary to mimic the accent completely?
Going off to ponder course changes now.
words were spilled on Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Comments:
heys... I understand wat u mean... Small talk does get tedious after a while, even at NTU where it's filled mostly locals n there r supposedly more common topics of conversation. Hmm I suppose we had been staying in our comfort zone for too long during the half year break? Quite hard to break out of tt I guess.
you keep hoping that the small talk will evolve into bigger talk, but most of the time it doesn't.
it's late afternoon and i'm sleepy, and my brain can't come up with anything else to say.
yawn.
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it's late afternoon and i'm sleepy, and my brain can't come up with anything else to say.
yawn.
