THERE'S not a lot to say today. Poor Mouth put on his blog a proverb about me "tis better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt" ~ let's face it, I've most certainly removed all doubt about me!
Anna Grace has gone in hibernation. She's back on the heroin and hiding from Anonymous, who keeps saying what a loser she is. I filled up her newest post with comments, as did Valerie and Boomer (2 drug dealers). Valerie signed in as me and started typing about her personal warts, the dodgy old cow.
My Chinese is coming along swimmingly. I keep getting discouraged, thinking "I will never learn this" I will never learn a language where all the words are weird and sound the same and there are two sets of characters (traditional and simplified). Yet I do learn it. The words are more difficult than Spanish or Italian but they're just as foreign if you think about it. The Chinese accent sounds more like an American accent than any other foreign language, as it contains retroflex R (like an American R). But it also contains sounds like a cross between S as in Sand and SH as in Shake or a sound halfway between S in Sand and CH in Church. Most extraordinary.
Usually I have zero discouragement and one hundred per cent inspiration when learning languages. It's the mysteriousness factor that appeals most, which is why Asian languages are to be preferred over European ones. Also as Valium Marilyn even knows, Chinese is "the easiest language in the world" ~ which is not strictly true as it's harder than Japanese or Thai but there you go. It's not as difficult as German, French or Spanish.
Seeing as it's my goal to speak 10 languages fluently, once Chinese is done there'll only be 7 left to go. (English is done; French and German are half done).
There's an awful programme on TV called "Ibiza Rocks" awful formulaic oldfashioned guitar music on an isle famed for brilliant formulaic and stereotypical dance music!
Here are 2 love songs. The 2nd one has a proper video:~~
I'VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE
the montage on this is more interesting than most of the others
IF I LOVED YOU
live recording session
ps that awful Professor Green is on telly ~ a one hit wonder if ever there was one. his only decent "song" is this one and that's because it has the best part of an inxs tune chucked in!
PPS how come Barbra Streisand stars in Yentl with a Man Named Mandy (Mandy Patankin) ~ did he have a brother called Wendy? Is his middlename Suzanne, so he could be a boy named Mandy and Sue?~?? And if Mandy isn't short for Amanda what is it short for?
Um,
ReplyDeleteDoes your mom have "recurrent major depression" ?
I don't believe half of what the psych docs say. I'd love to see the inside of their own medicine cabinet.
I think they hate xanax and valium cause they're in denial.
Take good care,
j.
Yes she says she gets depressed every winter. She thinks it's seasonal affective disorder. It's been bad enough to go on antidepressants at least twice and I know her: she downplays everything and certainly wouldn't pill-pop for the sake of it. I heard my chances of being bipolar type 1 (the severe type) were equal to my chances of having depression, genetically. So no wonder I'm in the mess I'm in!
ReplyDeleteYeah I don't believe for a second that most GPs suffer sleeplessness at all. They justify their own pillpopping saying "I have an important job to do; I must be fresh in the morning" and I'm sure they pop away at the (es-)zopiclone (Lunestra), zolpidem (Ambien) and benzos. Not so much with antianxiety meds (because those are more of a habit, once you get into them) but sleep meds I bet they use when they can't sleep.
My doc started down the blind alley of "why don't you take the antidepressant I gave you that made you psychotic" yeah RIGHT. You know if I were more vicious minded I would trick that bitch into prescribing me an antidepressant then sue for the resulting psychosis ~ which wouldn't be absolutely guaranteed but highly likely. Antidepressants make bipolar people MANIC. I get manic on nothing. Last thing I need is some drug doing it for me, then I really will go over the top and probably get evicted for playing Barbra Streisand on top volume at 2am instead of 6am!