Hidoi ga Jheti no Bouken (I Hate the Bus!!!1one one at!)

[jheti]

(If I did that right, it says "Jheti's Horrible Adventure". If I did not do it right, it says "A Horrible Jheti of Secrets", or something similarly WIRONG. XD)

Then again, About.com swears that "Nante koto kashira!" is female!Japanese for "Jesus Christ!" and that's wrong. "Nante koto kashira", contextually, would be, "I don't fucking believe it!"

I'mma say this just once, so listen, oye, ore, ore, ore!

What we say don't matter. For instance, "I swear on a stack of Bibles!" does not involve a large pile of holy paper. (Unless you're in court.) All it means is, "I'm totally fucking SERIOUS HERE, DUDE."

Nouns are pretty, and solid, and also mostly irrelevant in social context because of figures of speech, ornaments thereof, usage patterns, etc. etc. etc., and that's WAAAY more true when you're learning a language different from your own. That is, using the words the right way is infinitely mas importante than knowing what they mean.

I could go on about sono, kono, and ano. They're like ese and esos, or this and that.

But, taken collectively, and said with a shruggish gesture, sono, kono, ano is EXACTLY. Like saying, "this, that, and the other thing". For example, in conversation you might say, "Sally said this and that and the other thing," and that's how you would do it.

Even though ano means "that OVER THERE", directionally.

Bonus Lesson!

Ano is also Japanese for "Ummmm..." or "Uhh..." and is used to pause for thought without looking rude.

Okay, I'm done, I swear. On a stack of Bibles.

I could, actually. I own four. My relatives used to give them to me at Christmas, in apparent fear for my soul.

Anyway, my day.



I woke up hungry and skipped breakfast to catch the bus.

I fed baby and took her for walkies, and studied mythology in the library at teacher's insistence, and all was bliss.

Until. *Roll the black clouds in from stage right, and cue the ominous music...*

The bus arrived.

It was about twenty minutes late, too, but what the hell? Where was the harm? The call signs were for my city, and I even ASKED THE DRIVER, "Are y'all goin' to (my city)?" and he was all, "Yeah! Yeah! Get on!"

Because, usually, they will leave their call signs up and never change them no matter what fucking route they're currently in the process of running. So I asked ahead, and got the right response.

I thought.

It took me a little while to realize how horribly, utterly not right something was. I saw a familiar chicken restaurant out the window, freaked out (silently, something I've learned to do through three years of panic attacks), and called for the next stop immediately. I slipped out the back and walked.

Eight and a half blocks. Carrying twenty pounds of bag/book/notes/baby!sugar!angel!princess etc. Through a moderately not-nice part of town. People have been shot on that street. I am not making that up, my hand to god, they were fucking shot. With bullets. Whether they were killed slips my memory. Anyway.

Thank god it was daytime. By day, everywhere is just like Disney World. Only with more litter.

I got the usual assortment of drive-by honkings and bystander catcalls.

Did you know, no matter how fat you are, eventually your legs just kind of go numb and you can do anything? It was either euphoria or heat exhaustion. Splendid cure for pain. I felt nothing from my tits down. It was awesome.

When at last the outdoor water fountains came into view, I WANTED. I almost sat down/fell down flat on my ass from wanting water so bad. The fountain, long-unused, was encrusted with bird shit, and I was actually drooling. Over the prospect of water. It was kind of surreal.

I'm not sure how I got past it and into the building to the fountains I could actually drink from. People stared. They do that. Water! MINE. I pay to go to school here, I can fucking well drink ALL THE WATER and not leave anyone else ANY. Ever.

But yah that's how that went. Eight blocks to stagger through the building and then all the way across campus to the exact. Same. Stop. It only took me about half an hour, too. I got to sit and wait for another one. Ish.

I'm gonna go eat now. That's what I'm best at. *Halo.*