Post 62

I’m ignoring the world. I thought I would try something completely different with my VAST amounts of free time and so have been locked in learning Spanish and Japanese and applying for jobs.

For those keeping up with the drama, I was accepted on the waitlist to Michigan State for medical school, but then Environmental called me and we made up and it promised to be more interesting and more stable if I would just stop messing around with other topics. We agreed that I could see other languages, since it’s more of a platonic relationship and not a life-time soul commitment, so that’s that. I guess I just wanted to see what it was like to be in medical and needed to have a nice little mid-life romantic fling with a different discipline. But really, when it comes down to it, the girl always goes back to the nice, dependable childhood friend who’s been there for her for decades. No matter how hot the popular guy is. In my mind, I envision Medical as the princely archetype from anime…you know, blond. Charming. Rich and effortlessly loved by everyone. I’m thinking Tamaki from Ouran Highschool Host Club for anyone that knows it. And to continue the metaphor, Environmental would be, who? Mori? Definitely Mori. Or maybe to borrow from Yona of the Dawn, Medical would be Su-Won and Environmental would be Hak.

Anywho. I am done acting like a princess and I’m going to grow up and get a real job and do the thing, like an adult because no one should be approaching middle age and volunteering to take on a quarter million plus dollars in debt. No matter how pretty it is.

Besides, I think I just like taking the classes. Hence, we need a cheap, consistent, UNCOMPLETEABLE intellectual hobby that has NO DEFINED GOAL/MEASURE FOR SUCCESS that can be related to a job. Languages seem nice. Complicated, frustrating, achievable, and very cheap to learn. TA-DA!

We talked about it and Mori-Hak-Environmental agreed that I did need to have something to do in my free time and Rosetta Stone has a sale going on right now for a LIFETIME membership with a single payment of $190. For all the languages. All the extended learning. All the native speaker dialogues. Hot damn. Evidently, a number of internet people are pretty down on Rosetta Stone, but I’m not sure why. One even derisively referred to it as a click game and people should just buy a video game and not waste their time. This, I do not agree with. I’m done with the Spanish tutorial and it was delightful. It won’t get you fluent, but it’s not supposed to. It’s a great basis to then pursue other media and extended learning (which they offer). It will get you downright conversational.

Japanese is also a delightful experience. I’m enjoying it much more than Spanish, truthfully. I’m even trying to learn to read and write their THREE alphabets, which is phenomenally intimidating. Good gad, English speakers are spoiled. Maybe we should just make the whole world learn Latin as our Common language to make it fair for everyone. That’s the only language I can think of that’s easier than English.

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