patribus

I was typing my blogspot address in but accidentally typed partibus.blogspot.com and Blogger goes, "This blog doesn't exist, but you can start a blog called Partibus," and I was like, "Why didn't I think of this earlier? Partibus is so much more fun than patribus!"

Also, my thoughts on learning foreign languages:
1. Learning languages is way more fun if you embody the country's stereotypes. I bet I would still be studying French if I were encouraged to wear berets, chortle and speak in an exaggerated French accent. And I would definitely take up Latin again, just to walk around pedantically in a jacket with elbow patches with a smarmy smile, saying "Oh, ambulate. From the Latin ambulo, ambulare." 2. I recently discovered shower curtains (cute ones!) and found that there were many, like the one above, that would help learn you learn languages in the shower. What a great idea, right? So I was talking to a friend, and I was telling her that colleges should totally take advantage of this and throw in a shower curtain along with your language textbook to help you learn, and this friend goes, "What happens after you learn all of the words on the shower curtain?" I responded by saying that companies should make different versions of the shower curtains, so that when you learned the words on one, you could move on to an advanced shower curtain. Thinking about it now, that might contribute to a lot of waste though, so what if they made shower curtains with electronic message boards, like the ones at basketball games? Or! They could make a dry erase shower curtain so you could draw while you're in the shower and can write whatever you want.

What can I say? I'm a gold mine of shower curtain ideas.

I finished reading this book a few weeks ago. When I was reading it, I wanted to highlight certain parts, but I didn't, because just thinking about highlighting things makes me feel like a poseur. I do highlight (and underline) my new Bible though, but only to make things that especially resonate with me stick out so that I can find it again, which I suppose is the only reason why people highlight things. To sum things up, highlighting makes me feeling vaguely uncomfortable, but I mention it because this book said some stuff that made me want to show it to everyone that I meet and say, "SEE?! This is why I act the way that I do."

Being an introvert in the church sucks. Being an introvert in this culture sucks. The author talked about going on retreats to a monastery, and that sounds wonderful to me. Living in a monastery has always appealed to me, and I say monastery instead of convent, because as stupid and shallow as this sounds, I like the brown robe with rope belt a lot more than a nun's habit. A robe is just more comfy and rustic looking, you know? And softer. A habit is so stark with the white and black and whatever it is by your face. But a robe! With its earth tones and hood! If it weren't for the whole not getting married and being celibate thing, I would totally be a girl monk.

I started out wanting to talk about my thoughts about introverts in the church, but I'm really tired (not because I'm lazy; large groups just drain so much energy from me, which is stuff that's in this book and I want to highlight it because it's so true and I wish people understood stuff like that about introverts) and I want to live in a monastery, but instead I'm in this extrovert obsessed culture, and I should take a nap before I get crankier.