Selling Sno-Cones at the Beach

teraz szczesliwa?

I got less than 10 emails yesterday, very strange. Including NOT getting a paper back.

It was so odd that I checked a couple of other destinations for email - but nothing. People just aren't writing me.

Slept through the entire afternoon yesterday, trying to compensate for waking up at 4-something to finish a paper. I hadn't slept well that night anyway - sometimes on Tuesday nights my brain is so full of Polish words that it just goes round and round in circles. Last night, same thing: it would be agreeable to think that my brain is building new synaptic connections overnight, and the round-and-round thing is the residual. (Probably not, though.)

So - is it better to study Polish before bed (and be plagued with the buzz of the words all night) or better to study in the morning so that maybe the words seep into long-term memory in some less annoying way? I find that the early vocabulary, from back in September, is really solid. The newer stuff is fugitive. If I do the full set of vocabulary a couple of times a week, would that move things into long-term memory? And how to develop automatic sentence patterns?

And how to rethink my dissertation concept so that it doesn't rely on fluent Polish??

(the title of this entry is "happy now?" It's missing some accent marks - a squiggle under the e and a slash over the second s. It's pronounced shchen SHLEE vah. "teraz" is exactly as it looks, oddly enough. That doesn't happen too often, in my estimation. My textbook is full of marginalia that phoneticize these words.)

Posted by otto0114 at November 18, 2004 08:58 AM