Frivolous post
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qatarperegrineTwo good things and two bad things.
Good thing #1: Our Arabic classes have started again. This morning we had Conversational Arabic; Reading & Writing II starts tomorrow. So far I really like the Conversational Arabic teacher.
Good thing #2: Last night I ran 2K (1.25 miles) nonstop, i.e. without slowing to a walk at any point. I've never done that before. w00t, go me!
Bad thing #1: I just realized I'm going to be out of town for 5 of the 12 choir rehearsals leading up to the Easter concert. Ergo, no choir for me this semester. :-(
Bad thing #2: Umm... apparently I forgot bad thing #2 while I was writing the rest of this post. I guess that's a good thing?
Good thing #1: Our Arabic classes have started again. This morning we had Conversational Arabic; Reading & Writing II starts tomorrow. So far I really like the Conversational Arabic teacher.
Good thing #2: Last night I ran 2K (1.25 miles) nonstop, i.e. without slowing to a walk at any point. I've never done that before. w00t, go me!
Bad thing #1: I just realized I'm going to be out of town for 5 of the 12 choir rehearsals leading up to the Easter concert. Ergo, no choir for me this semester. :-(
Bad thing #2: Umm... apparently I forgot bad thing #2 while I was writing the rest of this post. I guess that's a good thing?
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Re: Fascinating
Date: 2006-02-15 04:49 am (UTC)K is also used contextually in American culture to represent thousands of dollars. So you might see headlines that say "School board budgets 20K for sports equipment" to indicate an expenditure of $20,000. It usually has a dollar sign in front (e.g. "$20K") but I've been seeing it lately without as well.
I second the weirdness about the running distances. You often see references to races as being 5K or 10K. In fact an extension of it was not that long ago when my work fitness center was involved in a program to give people pedometers and try to get them to walk 10,000 steps a day. The program is called "Ten-K-a-day". They even use the domain - http://demo.10kaday.com/.
Americans will never really GET the metric system, I think that's about the only conclusion you can really draw from all this. ;-)