Life Keeps Being A Beautiful And Frustrating

I Tried Once In My Life To Write A Novel. I Had Written Something Like 80 Pages Of It When My Laptop Got Stolen. When I Told People This, They Acted As If Something Tragic Had Happened, But I Kind Of Felt Relieved, Grateful To The Thief Who Saved Me From Another Year Of Something That Felt More Like Homework Than Fun.

What Happens When You Speak Colloquial Hebrew Is You Switch Between Registers All The Time. So In A Typical Sentence, Three Words Are Biblical, One Word Is Russian, And One Word Is Yiddish. This Kind Of Connection Between Very High Language And Very Low Language Is Very Natural, People Use It All The Time.

You Don't Need To Use The Language Of God To Ask Where The Restrooms Are.

I Think That, In Hebrew, It's Like The Language Creates A More Unique And Specific Universe Even Before The Story.

I Think That Becoming A Parent Kind Of Made Me Try To Be More Responsible. And It Made Me Much More Stressful.