fic: you were my glass menagerie

...even with the best friend he’s got out here, but he wants to keep it up, wants to keep saying these things that he knows he’ll regret in about five minutes. “He said something to me one time.....” He put special emphasis on the word, sounding it out just like the German was a struggling student of Yiddish who had trouble remembering his slang. “Least we can do is give him dinner and a show.” He held...

...be grossed out at Jess for saying she was attracted to him. ...to The Kin he's yelling Yiddish obscenities at the cars around him...I was mad I text him saying "Apparently you don't give a... I just walked away without saying a word because we were ... a text message to him saying "Super glad I came down ...a bitch, so I ended up saying "I'm kinda bummed I ... He responded back with me saying "Me too." and I asked ...

Slightly belated birthday post

...gone, a year away from being thirty and finally saying goodbye to my goddamn twenties forever. Besides declining health... including a week on my own to attend the Yiddish Theatre Festival (and I took a plane to get... my cherry allergy; 7. I have tutored in Yiddish (even if it was just a couple times, ...tuned in to what the anti-Israel crowd is saying, but hearing those things isn't exactly conducive to...

Американский кентавр: Апдайк в Загребе. 1978

..., I think, of the last of the Yiddish writers. But it was a surprising choice. The..., I think, of the last of the Yiddish writers. But it was a surprising choice. ...I don’t think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I’m saying. His last novel, Chimera, which is really a... religious, I believe, in what I was saying: that every man’s life is infinitely precious...

doesn't change the fact that i'm away

...city. i hate not living in vermont. halp. thought number 4: best yiddish expression experienced so far. it translates as "noah with seven mistakes" -...the name noah has only two letters, this is a way of saying YOUR IDEA IS THE WORST IDEA EVER because it's only two letters long and still it has 7 mistakes in it. my yiddish professor is, as advertised, the least linear human i have ever encountered....

Reading, radio, result!

...of documentary. Last night it was about the survival of Yiddish in New York, which was great. Yiddish is a wonderful language, I want to learn it. The words its given ... listen to. It was also funny because they were saying things like "The Alsatians were the most loyal of the... today, because there was an email from the MD saying that the last six months had been better than they...

More background tat.

... think," he said, in a heavily accented voice "that the lady was saying 'no'" Bobby glared, but let Rosemary break free. "And what's it... too much attention. Too many people in London couldn't tell a Yiddish accent from a German accent already and right now it wasn't a.... "Would you like me to walk you home?" he found himself saying, and realized that he was feeling oddly warm inside as she smiled ...

i don't deserve it

...Long Days anyway (office hours, teaching, yiddish, methods, then teaching seminar), and ... different from the notation in yiddish, which has thrown me for ... longer i'm exposed to yiddish. the professor is the least ... i've ever interacted with... saying that he goes off on ...'t even cover it, because saying that there are 'tangents' implies ... but no german (um hi? yiddish for german speakers?), but reads ...

To the people who sat behind me this morning...

... by that pesky rabbi. And the rest of us could have davened. You know, the stuff you're supposed to do in synagogue. Side note on my own absurdities: saying "l'shanah tovah" with a Hebrew accent to the rabbis and the cantor, and with a Yiddish accent to everyone else....

Writing Excuses Season Three Episode 16: The Anti-Mary Sue Episode

... an insult. Meaning what they're saying is they're pointing at one of your characters and saying you are inserting yourself sneakily into ... in Croatia and I wanted a Yiddish voice. I had to get steeped ... But I see what you're saying. Can you avoid this? Can you ...m imagining the character standing there saying this. This is the Reverend. ...him and talking to him and saying, "How did you come up with...