TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, February 9, 2006

10:54 PM
Posted by jodi rose

bathed and refreshed. making it through the night with the smooth tones of josef laufer, who sadly doesn't have a website but you might find out about him on www.supraphon.cz

Horvath Jozsef is really starting to worry me with his tone in some of these angol-magya diaklevelezes - I wonder how long the friendship will last, after questions like these:
Jobban megy mar a fozes (are you getting any better at cooking?)
Mi ujsag van nalad? (What has become of you?)
but again the frankness is endearing:
'I am writing to apologize for not having kept my promise. To be quite frank, I am sorry to say I completely forget about it until it was too late.' Now that is a handy sentence to know in any language :)
and these wonderful reassurances in the condolence section:
Fol a fejjel! (Cheer Up!)
Mindig van valami baj (There's always something)
Igazan nincs ok az aggodalomra (There really isn't anything to worry about) and finally
Rosszabb is lehetett volna (It might have been worse).
Indeed.
Sometimes when I ask people how they are, and it hasn't been a good day, they reply 'It goes'. I like that.
and this also is a very fine phrase to command:
Jobban vagyok, mint voltam, de meg nem vagyok a regi - I'm better than I was but I'm not my normal self yet.

Yes and when will I be my normal self? What is my normal self?
ah hell enough distraction, I have a professional life to maintain and microphone placements to decide. Feeling much better, the bath gives perspective on these vicissitudes.