seemed like Bhu had found a great new home, but wait, no, seems like they went and hired too many people, and their “friends” aren’t getting enough shifts, so…see ya, no job for you. She’s ready to fold and give up.
This sucks.
Archive for August, 2012
(really?) pronounced like esht, but the sh is further back, closer to where you make a K sound.
huh. so that’s 3 weeks of class done? what a thing!! If I really focus in class, i get maybe 90% of the teacher’s chatter, though if I’m not really paying attention, i don’t hear a single clear syllable. Today I had to give a little talk about Manhattan/NYC, just to practice speaking, and the teacher told me I was talking too fast! A good sign. Since I first started learning, whatever words I know come pretty fluidly, and my pronunciation is generally pretty solid. Words you don’t know though, just forget it. Most German words are built out of too few roots, with the whole array of prefixes stuck on, and very often the meanings are super specific. Um- means over or around, -bringen means to bring…umbringen means to kill. jerks. But I’ve finally managed a decent mental chart of the various cases: “the” can be der, die, das, den, dem, or des…and almost any other word used before a noun has to have an ending to match. And if you don’t know the gender of the word, just forget it. But in most situations, you can just mumble a vague d– something and it’ll be ok.
I get home afterwards, have some food, and pass the fuck out. My head is just so saturated.
Machen wir weiter!! (we go through/forward: we continue)
our little packet of life was getting closer to the spinning sharp things; in Germany you only have to be one day late on rent twice a year, and we goofed once already, so wondering where September rent was coming from had a special charm. Just got a nice $2,500 job from a client in NYC, due Wednesday, gonna be a nice thick hustle between now and then. The pretty red balloon is back up in the breezes! Waft you!
going to go get some materials to knock out a quick extension for my desk so i can work standing. It’s been found that sitting too much is a major health risk, so I’m eager to get my butt pointed at the wall, not the floor.
Bhu has two shifts at the new club this weekend, very psyched. hoping to get some bookings doing chillout in the outdoor court sometime. She’s angling to get the upstairs bar to herself soon, that’s a chillout area too. Would be so nice to doubleteam with her.
(maybe it goes better)
two classes down. it’s hard, but everyone else in the class is struggling too, and the darling pixie leading us through the wasteland does her best to keep it light. Suffering makes you shiny.
Bhu had a shift at the new place this weekend. It only amounted to about 3 hours of actual work in the outdoors bar, left early, but several of the staff were pretty happy to have her on board. One of the managers is the guy who took her promo pictures last year, that’s good too. She got a call today for 3 more shifts, which is right on time, September rent coming up fast.
we’ve both been a bit despondent these last couple of days; when things are going good, we’re nice and fluffy, but when we think the wprld hates us, let’s just say it’s a bad synergy. We fold. Glad she got those shifts today.
now let’s see if I can get some DJ gigs at her place, that would be sweet!
I better go do my homework!