not a superhuman, after all...

So, I found out yesterday that I'm really not a superhuman after all. I feel like most people my age or younger have this feeling like they are invincible or something, but we're really not and it's sort of an important realization to have... Not that you should let anything limit your goals and aspirations, because I'm still a firm believer in "if you put your mind to it, you can do it," and "most people are reasonable, that's why they only do reasonably well," but one should at least be aware of the sort of physical boundaries that exist. You know, the ones that determine your health at least.

Basically, what I found out yesterday was that I cannot go a full day just eating chocolate and cakes, and drinking only coffee, water, and orange juice. Actually, in some cases I think I might be able to handle this, but I think in combination with my lack of sleep and all of the running around I do all day... this was not a good and I paid for it yesterday.

I was over at my friend Mira's place studying Swedish after a long day of running errands, going to a short-film exposition, and hanging out at a coffee shop. I had only been eating sweets all day because I woke up late and didn't have time for breakfast... AKA: I bought 100g of dark chocolate before heading to the library. My mind was working very hard, as I was doing some very intense linguistic work with the Swedish.

My goal was (and still is) to create subcategories within the group 4 strong verbs where the subcategories actually fall into subgroups that follow a certain pattern (namely, ablaut or umlaut). In doing this, I need to know roughly what the vowel space looks like for Swedish so I can decide whether to call it ablaut (vowel reduction) or umlaut (vowel fronting)... basically. This has been something that has interested me for a while, and now it is useful because I'm taking a Swedish course again. Hopefully if/when I finish this, I'll post it to my Swedish website so people can see my work and use it to help them learn Swedish. I'm a huge advocate of shared knowledge and all things that are "open source," if you haven't noticed. I just hope that what I create is accurate and valid. If it's not, I'll at least have had good practice with the verbs. :P

Anyways, I just had some rice with kimchi and two fried eggs (a true Korean meal) and I'm making some 보리차 (barley tea) right now to fill and calm my stomach. Then, I think I'll have fully recovered and I can't help but thinking God is so kind for giving me such a mild scare. Finding out that I'm not invincible could have involved breaking my leg or getting hit by a tram or something like that, but instead I just felt faint and disoriented and just threw up a few times. God is great. And so is rice, kimchi, and barley tea.

:)

Good thing I'm well now though, because I'm hosting a meeting for this Swedish-Language student group I formed last week. We're called "The Swedish Language Alliance." Pretty bad-ass, I know.