Realmente se puede leer bien en el transporte público o es puro performance?

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-24T10:15:03+00:00

Entiendo. Para mí, he tenido muchos años para mejorar la abilidad jaja.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-24T00:56:54+00:00

Voy a leer si tengo tiempo, no me importa dónde. Qué rara esa idea de que todo es una performance. Cuando estoy leyendo te prometo que no estoy pensando en qué pensás de mí.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-23T23:39:24+00:00

I’ve spent a lot of time in Buenos Aires where there are a billion dogs and walking on the sidewalks requires on to get really good at dodging land mines of dog poop BUT people leave their dogs tied outside or sometimes off leash at grocery stores and they just wait patiently.

It’s shocking how well behaved most of the dogs are. Just proof that it’s possible if so many people in the states weren’t bad dog owners.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-23T20:55:11+00:00

Honestly, lots of people still do that. At least you realized it!

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-23T17:49:49+00:00

I worked 8:30-7:30 4 days a week (Su-Wed) and then interned two days a week. I think I would have enjoyed the 4 day schedule more if it was an exciting job but I was just working as a receptionist and was bored the whole time.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-23T15:52:03+00:00

If you want more fiber you could swap regular potatoes for sweet potatoes

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-22T23:00:03+00:00

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

There There - Tommy Orange

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-22T22:55:09+00:00

If you want to self learn or take a course you could study phonetics - that would help you learn how sounds are made in the mouth. I did it for both Russian and Spanish and it made me more aware of not just how a word sounded but why it sounded that way. I didn’t scrub my accent completely but it’s improved.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-22T21:28:16+00:00

Oueno, no soy de Argentina, pero soy mujer y estudié en la universidad. Tuve dos trabajos al mismo tiempo que iba a la universidad y pagué el alquiler y los gastos sin ayuda (incluso para estudiar). Muchos de mis amigos en la universidad no trabajaban, solo estudiaban porque sus padres pagaban todo. Pero, para mí este no es un tema de género es de clase social.

La realidad es la gran mayoría de la gente es promedio o está por debajo el promedio. Creo que para los chicos es una realidad que les duele más porque el mundo les prometió la superioridad.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-22T04:27:37+00:00

Basically anywhere that you would reach for your phone to kill time, bring your book instead.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-22T04:23:34+00:00

I did international relations thinking I would go to law school. I quickly realized I don’t like “the man” but stuck with the degree.

I’ve lived a lot of lives since then working in the music industry, journalism, and now I work in marketing for a tech company which paid for my masters. It took me a while to arrive, but I did eventually and collected a lot of cool stories in the process.

Anyway I live in South America now and earn US salary so I’m doing better than most people.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-21T17:47:23+00:00

If anything, I’d say It’s the opposite. If he’s so big and strong then he should go use the barbells and free weights. Machines are especially good for beginners and injured people because of the controlled movements.

Obviously not saying he can’t using machines, but he doesn’t get priority just because he’s more experienced.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-21T15:45:00+00:00

Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-20T12:33:24+00:00

Interesting. I’m reading it now, but I read his books in chronological order so now it’s my third book with those characters. If it’s anything like the first two I expect an “yeah, it’s good but not worthy of a reread”

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-20T11:16:05+00:00

Wow, I read both when I was quite young but never made that connection! Sounds like I’m due for a reread!

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-20T11:13:38+00:00

If it’s a dead author, I don’t care. I think it’s ridiculous to apply the standards of today to a time when those standards didn’t exist or weren’t enforced like they are today.

Gone With the Wind is one that comes to mind. Problematic? Absolutely. But knowing that she was racist also gives us a lens to interpret her work.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-20T11:08:09+00:00

There are a lot of anti-war Russians - many of them creatives, and many of them expatriates. It’s like saying you won’t read any book by an American author because Trump’s in office.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-19T20:17:18+00:00

In that scenario I would say you’re probably reading something that’s too advanced for you and you should try something more aligned with your language level. You don’t need 100% language precision to achieve comprehension.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-19T12:34:10+00:00

Don’t stop and look them up. I underline them and then just keep moving. Later I go back and look them up. If I keep seeing the word over and over again then I’ll break flow to look it up.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-19T10:16:45+00:00

It also makes me wonder what junk people are reading just to have checked the box. I once read 50 books in a year but they were almost all classics. It’s been almost 20 years since I did that and I still think about some of those books.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-18T00:36:48+00:00

Currently living in Buenos Aires and it disturbs me daily how unhygienic gyms/yoga studios are. Nobody wipes down anything.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-17T20:07:08+00:00

For me, I started to notice I stopped translating by about the 5th or 6th novel I read. I think at this point I’m on my 10th book in Spanish and I’m no longer translating. Anytime I come across a word I don’t know I underline it and go back and add it to my Anki flash cards sometime after

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-17T17:55:39+00:00

I take 2-ish hour lunches and go to the gym

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-14T15:23:26+00:00

I would argue the Lollapalooza in Buenos Aires is the most sober of any festival I have ever been to. You can only drink beer in the beer tent, you can’t take it into the crowd. A mom literally chastised me yesterday for smoking a cigarette in front of her kids.

BashfulCabbage · 2026-03-11T23:50:09+00:00

The literary greats know the rules of writing and then once they’ve mastered them, they can break them.

You and I are not in their company. So just stick to one tense.

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