{"id":829,"date":"2006-02-22T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/recently\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:05","slug":"recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/recently\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I know you’re all wondering how I’ve been spending the 4th decade of my life, since it began a little over a week ago. Mostly, I’ve been behaving in accordance with the maturity becoming somebody of my age and feeling sorry for myself because I didn’t get into grad school. But that got boring, so I spent a lot of time working on a sound collage thing Les Radios Francophones<\/a> which is a burning, wrecked hulk of a piece. I have no idea how to fix it.<\/p>\n

My dad blew through town yesterday morning. He’s on an airplane for California by now, after spending last night in London. And last night, I talked with my conversation partner for the first time in a long time. I’ve been working actively on trying to understand more french, so I was a little disappointed when I was as confused as ever during our chat. Alas.
\nThere are some french podcasts which I listen to which I find to be somewhat helpful: Les Journaux fran\u00e7ais facile<\/a>, France Blue L’horoscope<\/a>, Arte Radio<\/a> and Les bulletins Nouvelles de Radio Canada<\/a>, which covers some US news. There are others. In fact, there are too many. But those are the best, I think. The Easy French one is great because I can understand almost all of it and I can figure out the rest from context. I think it’s much more helpful than the jumble of words I get when listening to normal news on RFI.
\nTag: Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n

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