Yesterday and today were around 70 degrees. Tomorrow will be more of the same. A beautiful and premature spring. This morning I wanted to go for a run, but for some reason found myself strangely indecisive about audio accompaniment: would it…
I am in a race against time and language ignorance. I need to learn way more Korean between now and March 31. That is 12 days. My current status: not good. It is morning, and I am about to do lesson 9, Pimsleur…
Yesterday I woke up shortly after 5:00 a.m., ate breakfast, put on running clothes, and jogged over to Central Park for the start of the NYC Half-Marathon. It was my first race of that distance in 11 years, on an amazing…
For the first half of the day, I was not entirely functional, as I was still tired from my half-marathon on Sunday, but I worked on more Korean Pimsleur and didn’t do all that terribly. I got through lesson 11 …
With Pimsleur, words and phrases you learn in early lessons tend, after lying dormant for a while, to resurface in later ones. When I am asked to recall things from past lessons, I have noticed that surprising non-verbal memories sometimes…
Today I was officially admitted to the ranks of New York City Marathon registrants for 2010. I got the good news shortly after my morning run. There had over the past few days been a bit of a snafu involving whether…
Things are continuing to look pretty grim for my goal of finishing all 60 available Pimsleur Korean lessons by April 1. I tried hard today, but I guess Korean tried harder. Part of my problem is that I kept falling asleep during…
Today was an all-Pimsleur kind of day: Level II lessons 17, 18, 19, and 20, with two repeats per lesson. I now have 10 lessons left for the four remaining days of March. I didn’t leave the apartment today, except to get a…
Today was another marathon Pimsleur day. I finished three more Level II lessons, 21 through 23. I am pretty wiped out. Seven Pimsleur lessons in two days is a lot of Pimsleur. Especially Korean Pimsleur! I am getting through these lessons by…
It is 4:11 p.m. as I write these words, and I have shocked myself by finishing Korean Pimsleur a day and a half early. Yep, lessons 24 and 25 yesterday, twice each, and then a marathon Pimsleur session today, starting at 7…
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