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thanks for pointing out the delineation of xiang3 vs think. it's tempting to draw conclusions about what the two languages presume is primarily on your mind (desires vs beliefs). in general i think it's really fun to observe how the two different language (families) draw lines around concepts and group them into words -- thinking/speaking in mandarin changes how i think about things compared to english.
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sorbier
1 year ago
that said i think (haha, jue2de) that the average mandarin word performs more roles than the average english word, which renders mandarin more figurative/conceptual broadly. apologies for stating it so definitively though -- agree that it's totally my subjective impression.
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palmistshouse
1 year ago
A local venue that my friends would perform at frequently recently shut down and is set to be demolished. It's always so heartbreaking when those kinds of things happen :-((
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balckwell
1 year ago
In our apartment, "upstairs" is the top shelves of the kitchen cabinets that my wife can't reach.
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Sorry. You would have probably gotten an email sent to you from neocities from a post I made about your RSS not working. It does. Ignore it. I'm an idiot
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underwhite
1 year ago
you know you can disable email notices right? I did it for my site cuz it's unnerving
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readingproject
1 year ago
Thanks for that. I’ll look into it. I assume others get them because I do.
saddleblasters
1 year ago
I have email notifications turned on so I did see the messages, but it's fine! This is exactly the sort of mistake I can imagine myself making too haha. Glad to hear RSS actually does work. I'd used a validator to check it and had tested subscribing to it myself, but as always was a bit paranoid I might have done something wrong.
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Thanks for your interest in our site. I found your follow this morning and started reading through your site. Despite lack of sleep and very tired eyes, I just kept reading. I felt what you said about dogs, among other things. They are great animals and can get a rough deal sometimes. Hoping to read more from your site. Cheers
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saddleblasters
1 year ago
Thank you for the kind words! I'd seen your website before, but it was only yesterday that I finally started reading through some of the reviews you did last year (*The Red and the Black* and *The Ark Sakura* to be specific) and I felt like you did a good job writing about some very tough-to-analyze books.
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saddleblasters
1 year ago
Also, despite the frivolousness of it all, I translated some Milk@Coffee lyrics in honor of madeinv's most recent post
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saddleblasters
1 year ago
Well, that phrase only describes the situation in retrospect. At the time I didn't really think of it that way exactly, and spent all day worried that they both hated me (the internet girlfriend had already broken up with me once before, during which time I met the real life girlfriend... it was all very complicated, and being honest to everyone didn't really help (i was in fact slightly insane at the time))
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cult-master-status
1 year ago
eww you make becomeing an adult sound really terrible id hate to go to collage and spend a couple of years like that but I cant really say everything up until this point has been any less chaotic then your story regardless im little more scared about becomeing and adult now if stuff like that can happen on a side note you are a very good writer
saddleblasters
1 year ago
for a whole host of reasons, i have a greater propensity for bad decision making than most people, so i wouldn't read into my experiences too much. you'll probably be fine. that said, i don't really feel like anything i've written about was that terrible. it's just the long road to understanding other human beings.
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cult-master-status
1 year ago
yeah your right I avoid everyone so I havent had a chance to really mess up yet I think I can still be pretty sure I will tho not because of "bad decisions" but because of who I am as a person
Added a section for short pieces that don't fit what "records of a saddle" has come to represent.