[my life in lists]

[kaberett]

ETA per discussion in comments the following is an inappropriate and racist way to talk; apologies.

Today's horrible Turkish fact: "randevu" means "appointment". Because how else are you going to write "rendezvous". OBVIOUSLY.

(I can't actually talk here, given the flavours of German I speak - in Austrian we call potatoes earth-apples and in Swiss we call bicycles velo, and yet.)


x put together a week's worth of meds
xx double-check I've got codeine 30s and remaining diazepam with
-- make sure I HAVEN'T got remaining temazepam with, erk
x move dollars to wallet
x re-memorise US PIN (and remind myself which ATMs are in-network)
x copy out flight details into book
x triple-check passport location
x swap black box and water bottle holder over to dance chair
x double-check front left caster tension
x ... shit, haven't talked to me_and properly about how much care work he's willing to do for me, negotiate that on the flight over probably
- check in with jedusaur about next weekend
x sort out how we're gonna get in touch with quartzpebble when we get in

Pack:
x LIQUIDS BAG: saline sachets, suncream, toothpaste, ketoprofen gel, perfumes, small tube moisturiser, alcohol hand gel
x med kit
- +micropore
x black box: hex keys, adjustable spanner, tyre levers, spare inner, hand pump
x WRIST SPLINTS
x MEDS
x CONVERTERS
x misc chargers
x clothing x 7 +scarf +light jacket +tank top
x diary, pen, ebook reader, cameras

Monday morning things:
x wipe down kitchen
x take out green waste
x do a quick sweep of desk

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

I have to say find it uncomfortable when people talk about things in other languages as "horrible" or whatever. Especially when commenting on something from a language of a more powerful group being brought into a language of a less powerful group & morphed as it does so -- like when people laugh at "Engrish" (I hate that word) in Japanese. :/

(I am not necessarily ready to be drawn into discussion on this point, so it may not be entirely fair that I'm commenting about it, but I've become sufficiently uncomfortable that it feels worse not to say anything at all, so.)

[sebastienne]

Just posting to agree with the thrust of this comment; when I've heard you & D talk this way in person, it hasn't jarred me, because the affection/wonder for the coolness & adaptability of language is obvious... But that nuance gets kind of lost here.

[kaberett]

Thank you for saying; 'tis entirely fair on all counts. I think I'm not going to edit this post (unless you'd thus prefer?) for the sake of accountability and clarity-of-record, but I'll take more care writing in future. (If & only if you'd like I'm willing to go into more detail about motivations/intentions here, not because I think it's relevant to the point you're making but because *handwave* about interpersonal stuff & comfort with me & better modelling about what shit I might pull in future that you didn't expect.)

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you. I'll skip the motivation/intention thing -- I appreciate the point in comment above about how this might come off differently in person, but online here it comes off like hipster ironic racism (I'm including earlier post here w/the "fuck off" to Turkish for having a different kind of accusative than one expects/than one finds likely or useful or sensible from a certain personal location/history). Turkish as a language, Turkey as a country/as a people -- I don't feel like it's the same thing to say their language, the way they speak is horrible, etc. as it is to comment on perceived quirks of western languages, regardless of intent.

[kaberett]

Understood. Again, thank you for saying, & apologies.

[jesse_the_k]

I'm working on a travel med kit. It's inflatable, and when deflated all the items within auto-miniaturize.

Useful for globe-trotters like yourself. I'll contact you as soon as a beta is available.

In the meantime, do you have "make more lists" on a list somewhere?

[kaberett]

The mental list in fact currently includes "make a list of all the shit I want to get done after I get up early on Monday" :-p But yeah, list-making is kinda necessary for managing my executive dysfunction & anxiety, so. *wry grin*

[403]

I can't actually talk here, given the flavours of German I speak - in Austrian we call potatoes earth-apples and in Swiss we call bicycles velo, and yet.
Because those examples all appear to be imports from French?

As an aside, would you be interested in meeting for lunch/tea/whatever if we happen to be in the same city someday? (I'm currently in Boston, with plans to move to the west coast.)

[kaberett]

Yeah, this is pretty much that I find it endlessly hilarious that everyone thought French was Super Fashion for a while in there. (Lavabo. What the hell is a Lavabo and why is it in my German, etc.)

And yes, absolutely - I really do want to do a Boston trip but need to work out if I can get anywhere near affording it any time soon; I'm currently on the West Coast semi-regularly, not sure how long that'll last for.

[khronos_keeper]

As a semi-trained linguist and a communications person, I'm so fascinated by the way that words land language fragments end up in their neighbors vocabs or halfway across the world.

It tells us so much about how these countries interacted when these words were introduced, and what kind of relations they had with each other. That rendezvous-- a word with a social connotation that indicates a meeting among peers, with mixed sexes in the group-- is in Turkish is pretty delightful, because as a concept, it's entirely possible (given the cultural and social history of Turkey), that this kind of meeting simply wasn't a thing before they heard about it from the French.

It also tells us that Turkey was interested in the French culture and social customs, rather than their commerce or law system, etc.

And to be fair, French (leaving aside the sudden modern emergence of English as the lingua franca) was considered the global language for a very long time, sort of the way that Greek was in antiquity. But seeing how and where the other countries kept or borrowed words is so interesting.