I'm interesting!
2017-Aug-10, Thursday 08:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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At our last class, Aya-sensei told me that unlike some of her other students, the two of us never end up staring at each other without having anything to talk about. A lot of her students are software developers, apparently, so that's a big portion of their interest. But explaining programming concepts to someone who isn't a programmer can be complex enough in a language both of you are fluent in, much less trying to do so in a language you're learning. I know what functions are, and while I might be able to explain them, I'd have to do so in very abstract terms like 箱のようなものだ ("It's something like a box") unless I looked up a lot of vocab during the conversation. In contrast, Aya-sensei and I mostly talk about food, travel, and TV, podcasts, and games during free chat, all subjects about which we have a lot to say.
"Function" is 関数 (kansū), by the way. I had to look that up.
Goat-cheese-filled ravioli with accompanying pesto from a stall that mostly sells pasta. The asparagus and mushrooms there are leftover from previous trips to the farmer's market. Blurry in the background are chicken patties.schoolpsychnerd originally wanted to make chicken meatballs to put directly into the pasta, but the chicken wasn't diced finely enough to hold a meatball shape, so she used some eggs from our usual meatmonger and made chicken patties. They went really well with the pesto!
Apple pie from First Slice Pie Cafe.schoolpsychnerd was originally planning on making another flourless chocolate cake, but she realized that there was no way she would be able to get all the ingredients at the farmer's market and making a non-farmer's market dessert would go against the spirit of the day.
I heated my half up a bit and served it with ice cream.
I ordered two pairs of pants recently but had to return both of them, one for being slightly ill-fitting and the other for basically being parachute pants. And then today, I noticed just before I left for work that my most-recently-purchased pair of pants from before that already had a hole in it. It's on the back of my lower leg so not in a vital location, and it's not like these pants fit that well already. But still, I thought I would be up two pairs of pants and now I'm down one.
I took the afternoon off tomorrow and we're going out to India House for lunch, and after that we're going to have to go shopping for more pants. Maybe in a brick-and-mortar store, they'll be able to find something that actually fits me (30" waist, 36" leg). Though I'm not super hopeful, since I tried to get a dress shirt there before and they didn't have any with sleeves long enough for me...
"Function" is 関数 (kansū), by the way. I had to look that up.
Goat-cheese-filled ravioli with accompanying pesto from a stall that mostly sells pasta. The asparagus and mushrooms there are leftover from previous trips to the farmer's market. Blurry in the background are chicken patties.
schoolpsychnerd originally wanted to make chicken meatballs to put directly into the pasta, but the chicken wasn't diced finely enough to hold a meatball shape, so she used some eggs from our usual meatmonger and made chicken patties. They went really well with the pesto!Apple pie from First Slice Pie Cafe.
schoolpsychnerd was originally planning on making another flourless chocolate cake, but she realized that there was no way she would be able to get all the ingredients at the farmer's market and making a non-farmer's market dessert would go against the spirit of the day. I heated my half up a bit and served it with ice cream.
I ordered two pairs of pants recently but had to return both of them, one for being slightly ill-fitting and the other for basically being parachute pants. And then today, I noticed just before I left for work that my most-recently-purchased pair of pants from before that already had a hole in it. It's on the back of my lower leg so not in a vital location, and it's not like these pants fit that well already. But still, I thought I would be up two pairs of pants and now I'm down one.
I took the afternoon off tomorrow and we're going out to India House for lunch, and after that we're going to have to go shopping for more pants. Maybe in a brick-and-mortar store, they'll be able to find something that actually fits me (30" waist, 36" leg). Though I'm not super hopeful, since I tried to get a dress shirt there before and they didn't have any with sleeves long enough for me...
