So...

Somewhere along the long road of our friendship, Eric tricked himself into thinking I was a writer. Hee. Eric's funny.

I mention this because he sent me a loving asskicking last night, and since I'm a big believer in of loving asskickings, (ooh, nice. "believer in of" Yay for grammar.) I'm writing a nice long un-boring, observant of the tinylife update. Hope this does ya proud, Eric.

Life is a strange thing. Not the living, because I think that it goes without saying that the biological concept of living is just bizarre. Plantlife more than animal, but wow. Did you ever stop to think about it? How your body is this big self-contained machine-thing made up of all of these tiny little parts have their own little independant jobs that just happen to synch up with other little parts doing their own independant jobs and by some freak accident all sort of mesh together and makes this big body thing work. And don't even get me started on involuntary actions. The heart? Beats. On it's own. You don't tell it to. It just does. The heart beats because that's what it does. How crazy is that? It's absolutely mind boggling. But I digress.

Only maybe I didn't digress. I don't think I had much of a point to begin with. I feel like right now everything is really mundane and yet really new at the same time. It's like deja vu, only... I don't know. Do you actually have to have had the experience the first time for deja vu to occur? Or is it some rift-in-time, Jungian collective experience sort of thing? I don't know. It's like life is a pre-deja vu deja vu experience right now.

I think I'm going to take a course in Nihongo (Japanese Language) I feel like my "smarts" are slowly being bled out of me, and it's kind of creepy. I really like (at least, so far) the Japanese language. The structure of it is beautifully simple; you don't conjugate the verbs according to who's doing the action, like in Romance languages. Take the infinitive "to eat". It doesn't matter who is doing the eating. She, he, me, you, we, us, it's all the same word. Which is also the infinitive. To get the negative? Take the stem and add the negative making suffix. Granted it depends on who you're speaking to. If it's someone that you're status-ally below, and you have to use the formal. If it's someone you're associated with, i.e. a co-worker you use the normal/polite. If it's your child, or spouse or friend, you use the informal. It's interesting, the amount of cultural structure you can pick up just by learning the language. And that's another reason why I want to learn Japanese. The cultural differences between Japan and the US are incredibly fascinating. The only thing that I find daunting is the alphabet. Excuse me, alphabets. They use four. One, is certain characters from the Chinese alphabet, there are two Japanese alphabets, one is made up of native Japanese sounds, the other for foreign sounds and is primarily used for words of un-Japanese origins, and then romaji, or the roman alphabet because, from what i've read in the "Idiot's Guide to Japanese" it's cool to put English words/names on things. Especially cars and companies.

Anyway. I hope you like that, Eric. It's rambly and pointless, but it's about things that I find interesting and if you don't like it, tough. :p