the neolithic paradox

since things ended it is now easy to appear more industrious than everyone else. i just show up and walk up and down the hallways and greet anyone i see. they note my presence and then we have a secret feeling of merit that we share. one of my colleagues, whose real name is certainly Helmut Bittrich, offered material and moral support in my obtention of more books than i can ever read over the break (and i boasted that by my honor i would read them all). they are novels by junichiro tanizaki and natsume soseki. and classical nahuatl textbooks. i also got some south american literature and then a couple of the kind of books that you mention at dinner parties confident that few people have made their way through the whole thing. i also got ahold of some 20gb of one man asking another man how do you say such and such a word, then he says it, then he tried to repeat it. my supervisor is worried that posterity will find out that he was racist because he can't see inside anyone's larynx.

in the evenings i am rehearsing for the luncheon i will host on sunday. rehearsing means i carry out different experiments in the kitchen and stay up till 3am drinking beer and tasting my attempts. twice i failed to make banh mi bread but the second less abjectly than the first. i continue bricolating on this front a couple more times, i know how to improve each time. tonight i tried two slicing techniques and one marinade for thit nuong, and found something that is nearly presentable if i make the oven hotter. as for the pickled condiments, i just trust that one try is enough.

Helmut Bittrich and i failed to build a snowman and we developed a racist theory to explain why. i found out that if i use a dog to test whether the ice is too thin i could end up getting arrested and a video of the dog's rescue on cable television. the problem is that a robotic person or a robotic dog or satellite imagery are not within my budget. it just occurred to me that i could use a seal. seals don't suffer from ice water. a seal is called ? ? in korean, "water dog." a dog that can brave the waters and no one calumniates me when i only wanted to know if it's safe to play on the frozen lake.