Sometimes I have to wonder… April 12, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , trackback…about myself…
First of all, the other day I was chatting with Abby. I was talking to someone else, too, I think, so maybe I could blame my spaciness on them. But probably not. Anyway. AIM popped me up the little message thingy in the corner of the screen, and I saw what Abby had written: “I can’t wait for the fall.”
My mind totally misconstrued that and read it with as “the Fall”, at which point I choked, blinked, figured out what she had actually meant, and promptly reported my brain glitch to her. She found it hilarious.
The same night, I was talking with Andúnë when Antion got on. It was rather important that I talk with Antion, so I did so, beginning the conversation, as usual, in Spanish. Silly me… I’m not sure why I do that, other than force of habit, and, of course, tradition.
Thus, in the midst of thinking in Spanish, I found myself answering something Andúnë had said. The instinctive response was to say Thank you in Spanish. I somehow remembered that he does not fully appreciate Spanish and managed to avoid doing that. The next auto-reply in my mind involved German. I also remembered that Griffin had scolded me the last time I said danke schoon because that is not, in fact, the correct spelling. Thus, I sent a message which said danke, forgetting that it, also, was not in English.
Shortly afterwards I realized that it’s pretty weird to end up speaking German to someone because you are speaking Spanish to someone else. The only excuse I can find here is that German is the language which I have been most forced to use on IM other than Spanish.
Anyway… that is it for now. Hopefully I’ll be getting up some more pictures from the whole Virginia trip soon. 
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What is really bad is when you are talking to too many people and the messages get all mixed up.
I *just* managed the other day to keep a conversation about devotions not mixed up with a conversation about Nicole Kidman, and Jeremiah not mixed up with a discussion on terrorism. 
I remember once or twice gasping with laughter because you or one of the other three I was chatting with had just escaped being inflicted with a terribly out of place message…
p.s. looking forward to the Virginia pics!