Thursday, April 3, 2008

Vocabulary, motivation and denial

Yesterday has been very educational. For a few nights now, we get together around my habitat and we decide upon the "Italian word / phrase of the day", "English word / phrase of the day ", "Romanian word of the day " and "Spanish word of the day"( that is just between me and A) The guys need to practice their English ( and so do i, as i lately started to make unforgivable mistakes, like writing threshold with double h - i think the panic with the double letters in italian has had smth to do with it, but the fact remains ) and me and A need to practice our Italian. And that is best done, of course, by talking. Politics, movies, geography,history, you name it, the guys are an open encyclopedia that me and A looked through with a large smile on our faces and laughter all night - ofcourse the neighbors were a little disturbed by the noise, but there were no restrictions, everyone was invited to join ( one did :P ) The evening ended at a late hour, but i did not sleep in today because i was trying to get away from a dream i was having, or, better said, get away of a person that was not supposed to be in the dream in the first place.
Now that i am home and as during the day i have socialized in the appropriate amount, the next hours will be spent in solitude, and hopefully, doing something useful. I made a pause from my intellectual activities ( yes, i am capable of such ) and remembered the article that was so inspirational yesterday, when i decided to actually start doing the things i am supposed to at this stage. 10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work reminds people that there is no absolute formula for succes just as success is not the same for everyone. There is no one way to work, there is no one way to do things, in the end, each one of us has to choose the optimum bundle among the existent opportunities as to maximize benefits. I am very often angry at myself that i need to much external motivation, but the good part is that the latter has been easy to find lately, so i think i am set :) So at the moment i am off to the study room, which i hope to find not so populated, away from all the distractions of my room, with the accounting book in one hand, pen and paper in the other, and head clear of useless assumptions and stupid connections between totally unrelated events. I will not try to solve any existential problems during the next 1.5 hrs, and hopefully, by the time i get back to my room, the latter will all disappear.

P.S.
Italian word of the day - " farcitella ", which means " chubby" in plain english.
Romanian word of the day " incalzire" - " heating"
English word of the day " stubborn ", and, of course, the romanian translation with italian accent " incaputsunatu"
Spanish word of the day "pedir" - "ask"
German word of the day " zucker" - " sugar" ......

3 comments:

adinusa said...

=))=))=)) mor!! incaputzunatu=))=)) doamneee, rad de una singura cand ma gandesc la aseara...a da, si mooor de frig..che palle, giuro!!

Roxanchik said...

au, eu nu am pus toate " italian words of the night" cu un motiv... si asta nu a fost ca sa le folosesti tu aci ! respecta pagina mea, pls !

vocabulary said...

English vocabulary has become somehow essential nowadays. If you can't manage to speak English as a foreign language, it's hard to communicate in different countries.