Juilliard, dirty socks, food, languages and…Fresh Express.
1. I wonder what my life would like if I had gone to Juilliard for music. No one asked me. I’m just wondering.
[See comments for clarification on that one, to and from SnarkyRunner]
2. I really have a distaste for watching someone pull on a pair of worn-before socks. Especially if they study the socks for toe-shapes to see if it goes on the left or right foot. Disturbing. Not as disturbing, however, as someone wearing only socks. I really can’t think of a good excuse for that.
3. Boss and I went to a (private) tasting last night. We tried 5 appetizers, 9 entrees and 4 desserts..for just the two of us. It was insane but a good opportunity to try a lot of different things. We had to be rolled out. I admit, it was sort of fun to see people watching and wondering why were had so much food coming out or why I was scribbling notes down the whole time.
4. If you could be fluent in five languages, what would they be?
5. I turned in an expense report about 6 weeks ago. I asked Fresh Express for a status and she looked at me blankly. I then remembered that I was supposed to get a new keyboard a few months ago. You know, I’m not sure what she does other than play in the water fountains all day.
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
2. Ew. What? I just realized that I always wore socks to bed until my first pregnancy, since then the thought of socks in bed is repulsive to me. Weird.
4. Spanish (practical), German (husband is fluent), French (just b/c it’s pretty), Japanese & Chinese (again, practical).
June 19th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I once had a partner who left his socks on when we had sex. It was the weirdest and grossest thing ever. Men naked are funny enough. Men naked in just socks… I have to really struggle to keep myself together. Bleeeegggh.
I would like to be fluent in
- Indonesian (the language of my peoplez),
- Japanese (so I wouldn’t be so damn lost the next time I’m there),
- German (I listen to a lot of German Industrial music; though my comprehension is already decent, it would be great if I had more knowledge of colloquialisms and their crazy compound words).
- Mandarin Chinese (because I’m probably going to need to learn how to say “Would You Like Fries With That?” considering the way things are currently going… heh)
- Dog (For once, I would like to know what my dogs are saying or thinking when they do weird stuff like shit on the rug and then giving me THAT LOOK.)
June 20th, 2008 at 2:49 am
1. Why? What exactly would Julliard want with a foodie-lawyer like you? Tell me what musical talents you have. Why has no one else asked this!?!?
2. Are you grossed out if the pair is their own socks or other people’s socks? does that matter? I sometimes (every other day) wear work socks that have previously been worn. ONLY socks in a public place is weird…. but in my home (or theirs) not so much I LOVE slipper socks. Although, those who wear socks with tevas or other sandals should be hung. Seriously…..
3. You invited me first.. just remember that……..
4. Spanish (because I almost am), Portuguese (because a lot of back-of-house restaurant workers speak Portuguese and my likelihood of working as an attorney gets smaller daily), Italian (no reason needed) , German (lots of potential commercially), Chinese OR japanese (prob Japanese b/c I feel like they have more money… and b/c it is the hardest language to learn… but really, it’s b/c of the money… OBV)
5. Can I push her in a huge water fountain… like one of those big landmark ones? What the hell!? Tell her to pay you! And give you that damned keyboard!!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Krystie Lee - I hadn’t thought of that before but now I’m grossed out by socks in bed. Ack.
You want to speak Cantonese or Mandarin Chinese?
June 20th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Avitania - Naked man with socks?
I am speechless.
And you have unique language choices!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:34 am
SnarkyRunner -
1. I laughed when I read your response. I didn’t mean that no one had asked me how my life would have been had I gone to Juilliard. I meant that no one at Juilliard had asked me to go. I just wondered what it would have been like to go to a school so completely different from the norm. Heh. I studied piano for years and play 4-5 other instruments fairly well but nothing that would have ever earned me admission to Juilliard.
2. Dirty socks is dirty socks - but even worse if they are off of someone else’s feet What the hell would possess someone to put on the dirty socks of another?! Do you walk around naked with JUST the slipper socks on?
3. I think that was a different tasting. But I’ll start inviting you first as a general rule of course.
4. Portuguese is close to Spanish, isn’t it? You’re waassssttting a chhhoooiiiccceee! And you’re going to get a job soon, I sense it.
5. I’ll throw a fit just for you today.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
An evening of tasting is what I want. Really. My idea of heaven.
Besides English, I think
Spanish, because I live in NYC
German, because it’s considered so difficult
French, because I think it’s the absolute prettiest
Any tonal language, because it’s such a departure from what I know. They say even very young children who speak in tonal languages have perfect pitch. So cool.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
5. Here is my tip for the day: do your own expenses.
I have no sympathy for you. Zero.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
You’ve been keeping your musicianship a secret from me? I am appalled!
I wonder the same thing on occasion.
Hello fellow musician
If I could speak any five languages fluently? French, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, German.
Dirty socks are gross. Yuck. Where do you come up with these topics? LOL.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:03 am
I don’t play this game well (see: my previous comment, etc ad finitem, re my mood) but I wanted to say (to make myself feel better? Superior? Both?) I am already semi-fluent in four languages, plus I speak a little Arabic and “speak” Latin.
Wow that just made me feel cheap.
But see how I’m still posting it…
June 21st, 2008 at 9:32 am
1. So what does ye play? I do wonder if I could have made a go in music had I really pushed playing. I do the whole electronic music “shtick”, but it’s purely a hobby!
2. Heh. I don’t just wear socks around, and I certainly don’t wear socks in bed
3. Okay. Now I’m jealous. When are you going to invite ME to something like this?
4. Spanish, French, Italian, German, and… to steal from Avitania: Dog. The others in case I go on a trip there, and the latter so that I can understand WTF they are thinking. It rarely makes sense.
5. Oooohhh.. here’s the keyboard I got at work: http://www.apple.com/keyboard/ It wrocks. It’s the little wireless one FTW!
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Languages:
1) Arabic
2) Chinese
3) Japanese
4) Russian
5) Thai
The first 4 are for business opportunities, and the 5th one is cuz they make pretty women.
Also, glad to see you’re around and about!
June 24th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
1. I played the violin for years as a child…should have stuck with it and gone to a cool school like Juliard. If I had only known then….
So what do you play?
2. Socks are evil. I only wear them to run, and don’t laugh…but I buy a new pack every few weeks because I REFUSE to wear socks that are not sparkling white. As soon as they get dingy I won’t wear them, they gross me out.
3. Me = Jealous I so need to do things like this. You can only eat at restaurants with ball pits and kids meals so often before your gut wants to shrivel up in dispair.
4. Italian, Greek, Oglala Sioux, I’m semi fluent in French (like I took three years in school so I can ask for a bathroom, a glass of vine, and some cheese…what the hell else do I need to know in French?) so I’ll leave that off. Two more? Hmmm…. I’m also fairly fluent in ASL as my degree is in deaf studies and early childhood special education. Okay…way off topic there. Let’s add, Russian and possibly Thai
I think German is possibly the ugliest sounding language ever spoken. Hearing it gives me the creeps.
5. Fresh Express is only around so that you have someone to torment! Or perhaps someone to torment you…I’m sure of it!
June 25th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Hey Random, how was the food?! Didja meet her?
Socks should be illegal when adorned without the appropriate shoe.
My 5 languages are: Spanish, French, German, Farsi (because that’s fun to say) & Vietnamese (so i can secretly find out what the nail salon ladies are saying…)
June 27th, 2008 at 6:27 am
here I am, posting again. This entry was just too interesting to pass up.
1. The real question is, would you be happier in that life than the one you have now? Might be siginificant differences in income, but if there were greater satisfaction to be had in the life of a professional musician, Would you go for it? your circle of friends might also be drastically different as well. would that matter to you?
2. Yes, people wearing dirty socks is gross. When I travel, I either wear sandals or take along four extra pairs of socks in my carry-on, just in case. I also toss my socks after they get dingy or stained, because I don’t want to wear socks that look dirty, even if they have just been washed in scalding hot water to sanitize them. And wearing just socks? that makes them fray and develop holes. And, if they are being worn around a less than spotless house, socks pick up dirt and look totally disgusting on the bottoms. Ick!
3. Tastings are so much fun! I’m jealous of you, I haven’t been to one in a long while.
4. Here’s the funny thing: I’m actually pretty fluent in about six languages (most of them indigenous to North America), But I’d still like to learn French, Italian, Cantonese, Swedish, and Ju??hoan, because it is a ridiculously difficult language to learn (lots of clicks and glottal clusters).
5. Perhaps you should hold her head under the water fountain until she coughs up your keyboard and promises to process your expense report immediately? My other reccomendation would be to hand deliver your report to accounting and put in the request for your keyboard directly to the supplies department. In other words, avoid having to go through Fresh Express when at all possible, unless you don’t care whether or not your requests are addressed in this lifetime.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Heather - If you make it out to Chicago, we can do a tasting. It’d be fun fun fun.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Brenda - Hi there.
Oh, I haven’t been keeping it secret…it’s more that I just didn’t have any reason to mention it. I play a few different instruments.
Yes, dirty socks are gross. And I have no clue how I come up with the odd topics. These are the dumb things I think about.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am
LynchSeattle -
1. I’ll twitter you what all I’ve played. Mainly, Piano. For more years than my piano instructors care to remember.
2. Socks in bed are blech, no?
3. THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JULY.
4. You guys speak dog and then come train my beast!
5. Niiiice keyboard. Slick.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
1. Mainly Piano. I play a few brass and reed instruments, as well, but no strings. Do you still play violin?
2. That is sort of hilarious. I’m afraid, though, that I’ll now adopt this as a new habit. Do you ever do that? Like reading about illnesses and then fearing you have the symptoms?
4. Awesome about the ASL. One thing I always sort of dug about Boss’s mother is that she could read braille. That sort of fascinated me.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Geekgirl - forgive me for being so horribly behind in comments that I can’t remember who I was going to meet.
How’re you doing? I need to go catch up with the hell you’re raising over at your blog.