Shakira and Macroeconomics
I had my first Spanish class today which inspired me to bust out my Spanish Shakira albums, because they're both musically wonderful and also helpful in retraining my ears to hear Spanish. I also happened to be in the middle of a very exciting macro-economics chapter in my textbook... Generally, I consider myself unable to listen to music and read at the same time, however I decided to do it. I realized that quiet music in a foreign language (that hopefully won't be foreign for long!) is the perfect compliment to textbook reading, which is dry even when it's trying hard not to be. I used to space out while I read and not pay attention to the words so that I'd have to reread. The music helps to keep my other senses (hearing, obviously, but also movement--which I guess would be touch, or feeling in sense terms-- because you move your feet a little with a Shakira beat) busy so that they aren't wondering off while I try to read. Plus the constant beat of the music kind of pushes you along in the reading so that you don't stall on things, and your mind is so busy it can't wander too much. It's the perfect solution. Anyways, I meant to keep that paragraph much more concise than I did, but I didn't have my usual textbook spacing out time to write it over and over in my head.
P.S.- It turns out I have inherited the Ripley ability to wiggle my ears. I began discovering this ability around two years ago or so because I noticed that while I was reading, the muscles around my ears would tense up and my ears would lift up a little. I found it a little annoying and distracting, so I had to learn to lower my ears. Eventually, I learned to control the muslce, and ta da, I can wiggle my ears.
P.P.S.- I got deja vu while writing that last paragraph, although I don't know what I got deja vu of... I got the feeling that that story was familiar, but none of the memory. I also recall that whatever it is that I can't remember was not really like that story at all, only in the sense that it was kind of bragging in a weird way. Maybe that isn't deja vu. Anyways, that's all!
Oh, one last note, my fabulous ISSP buds just made lentil soup and it was delicious. See, I do occasionally eat well at school. It saved me from a night of a rock hard bagel, ew.
Posted by lib at January 17, 2007 10:32 PM