The Nature of Language

I wish I could find time to catch up. When one has fallen so far behind, a person don’t hardly know what to do. Since I last wrote:

• I left Vermont.
• I lived in Delaware for three weeks. I saw some friends I hadn’t seen for 40 years.
• I visited my sister & her family in West Virginia.
• I went to California for one day.
• I drove to North Dakota, where I lived for one month and didn’t see any tornadoes.
• I made some friends there.
• I miss my SIT friends.
• I’ve been debating changing my relationship status on Facebook.
• I finished writing my master’s portfolio.
• While sitting in a theory of adult literacy class at Sac State I had a new appreciation for the SIT environment.
• I’m unemployed and feeling unemployable and am scared.
• Yet as of this exact second I can identify faint threads of hope for my life.

Dan Coffey wrote on Facebook tonight: “All foreign languages are affectations employed by pompous people to seem clever or sophisticated. If you wake a foreigner up in the middle of the night, you’ll find out that he or she speaks normally.”