#justonecoffee

23: how have you felt today?

I thought I'd answer this one first, since I have a feeling my answers to the other two questions won't be...err...typical of me. I've had a really bad headache for hours, and I just lost a follower with timing that made me really paranoid and weirdly panicky.

12: is there something you would like to say to someone?

There's a particular ex I'd like to ask to tell me once and for all why he broke up with me. I'm (almost) not scared to ask anymore. But, then again, there's always that 'almost.' Even now, I'm afraid it could screw up the friendship we've been able to salvage.

Then again, there's also the best friend who walked out of my life, apologizing but basically saying that their reasons would become clear in time. In some ways, they sort of did. And in other ways...

So, at the moment, less something I'd like to "say" to someone, but certain people I'd like the ability to "ask" them to "say."

14: would you rather sleep at a friend’s or have them over?

6: Your least favourite language to listen to.

Totally cheating, but: Vogon ;-) (I don’t know that there’s any real language I’ve heard that I dislike the sound of.)

9: Your favourite word in a language you don’t really speak.

rudeneja (adj. Lithuanian) describes the way nature and/or the weather begins to feel like autumn - everything the spring gave dies in the most romantic and poetic way; the leaves start to change to warm colors, and the way they slowly and quietly float on air and fall into the ground, and the crunch sounds they make when people step into them are music to the ears; a perfect balance between warmness and coldness of the atmosphere, and the way it gives a cozy and comfortable feeling.

14: A language you like, but wouldn’t put the effort into learning.

I’m fascinated by the sounds of the Hadza, Sandawe, Khoe, and Tuu branches of language, but there are so many individual languages therein, it would probably take more than a lifetime to learn them all… It isn’t even that I wouldn’t put the effort into learning at least one of them…but, rather, that there are other languages I would probably learn first, as I have more practical need of them, and so the amazing languages of Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, etc. I probably won’t ever have the opportunity to learn.

For that matter, I love the sound of French, but I rather doubt that I’ll ever learn more than a few phrases, despite the fact that my husband has a rudimentary knowledge of the language…just because there are other languages that are a higher priority in the learning queue.