Hockey post pretty much

[oanja]

This is adorable to me! Also that he wrote Granlund wrong. Not that I blame him if he's only heard it and not seen it written anywhere. Also if they were at a concert.
Still, wild's Euro prospects taking in a hipsterish band. Rock on my wild bb's, rock on!


Then I have to write down a dream I had because it was just kind of lolzy. In the dream the Canada's Olympic team was having another camp where the main storyline was that Amanda Kessel had made the team. (this is already hilarious for many reasons... Mostly because she's American and women have their own Olympic hockey teams) So of course his brother was worried about all these hockey dudes hitting on his sister, while they were on the same team (Phil was there too. i guess my mind just doesn't really care about the difference between the American and Canadian national teams. Go figure) I don't really remember what happened here in the middle of the dream, but in the end Amanda got together with Jeff Skinner and she was super smug about it, while Skinner just did that dimple-y smile thing he does. Phil was not happy.

When I woke up I had to go 'wtf was that brain?' Because wasn't that like a plot of a bad het fanfiction??? (also what kind of pov do you have while you dream? Do you have dreams where you aren't even in? I feel like most of the dreams I remember are like this, where I mostly hop from one character to another [I was Phil and then Amanda for example and sometimes I was like the omniscient narrator] and the real me is nowhere in the dream, if that makes sense?)

Also, I succumbed and bought a Wild t-shirt that I saw in a store, because how could I not buy it, when normally you can't buy any NHL merch here. It was a men's t-shirt. but you can't really tell, except for the sleeves, which are a bit too long and loose for me. So then I had to try to take a photo of myself while wearing it and it went as well as you might imagine... And what else would I do with them but post here? :D (if you feel so inclined please give me ideas about what colour I should dye my hair)

First I was like 'let's try to do a smiley one' and then I messed up the self timer and ended up basically taking a selfie, while doing a fake smile. Good start obviously


Then I was like 'ooh, I should take my glasses off!' and ended up making this paranoid face instead... (also I messed around with photoshop a bit. Should I dye my hair pink???)


Finally I just went for the Wentz face... xD Close enough

Comments

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Heh, I dreamed about my internet routines... ^_^;

I hear words in my head when I'm reading things like comments here etc, but I don't hear words when I'm reading a novel. I think I need time to get immersed into the story before I stop noticing I'm actually reading words.

English isn't my first language so when I think in English the voice in my head sounds a lot more fluent and native, than my actual accent, but it's definitely my own voice (or at least the voice I hear myself, not the one I can hear if I listen to my recorded voice)

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. French is my second language and I'm nowhere near fluent speaking it, so it takes a while for me to get stuck in on reading it quickly and without listening to it in my head when I pick up a French book. And I can hear a French accent in my head that's a lot smoother than the one that comes out of my mouth, though the awkwardness of the phrasing doesn't improve.

What is your first language? And what do you hear when you read in that, if you don't mind my asking?

[oanja.livejournal.com]

I think am close to native levels in English, except I tend to have an accent when I talk, especially if it's been a while since I've used the language. (not surprisingly I mostly tend to read and write it instead of speaking it)

I'm Finnish, but I never read prose in my native language anymore, as I like to read books in their original language (and all of my favourite writers write in English) and I find something always get's lost in translation. Also I find that dialogue doesn't flow or sound right to me in Finnish (there is a big difference between correct/book Finnish and the language you use everyday while talking to friends etc, so it throws me off the story) so I mostly just read scientific texts in my own language these days (for my studies) and I think I hear the words in my head, because I'm trying to remember the things and learn, not just read for pleasure.

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely! Your English is WAY better than my French. I never guessed you weren't Anglophone! Your description just seemed familiar to me. :)

Ah, okay. That's interesting! Sorry to bug you about this, haha. It's just so neat how you can't ever tell from the outside, but people have such wildly different ways of conceptualising their mind in their brain. I don't even know what it would be like not to think is words so much! ;)

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Yeah and your description sounded familiar to me too! I mean I remember when English was like that for me and I know a few other languages in a lot lower level where I can't think in them, so it totally made sense to me.

No worries, it's a lot of fun to talk about these kinds of things. :D I really can't imagine it either. I don't know if they are connected but I think that because I think in words I also learn well by listening. Like yeah I can learn things by reading about them, but I find it easier to remember things if they haven been explained to me verbally.

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Huh, now, that's really interesting because I'm TERRIBLE at that. I learn best from books, and if I want to really recall things, I absolutely must write them down; it won't stick anything like as well if I just hear it.

But anything with words is still better than watching. For example, when I was first getting into hockey, people were always saying just watch it, but I couldn't follow what the players on the ice were doing until some people broke some plays down for me verbally and in writing, and explained what was going on. I couldn't see it until I had words for it.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

Heh, cool. I personally don't really remember things better if I write them down. I mean of course it's a big help when revising a lecture or something, but I never do notes on books I have to read for exams etc.

But I agree with you on the visual learning thing. That is definitely not my strong point either. It made me think about how we learn as kids, like when you are in elementary school and they want to teach you how to play some kind of sport the teacher basically just had to show you and then the kids can copy and learn by doing it. But once you get to high school or something, showing something isn't enough anymore, you need to explain and break down things for students to learn new (physical) things

[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

I need it for even tiny things, like if you tell me a name or a phone number it's - pfft - out of my head in seconds, but if you've got a name tag, or I write it down, I actually have quite a good memory.

Hmmm, I think I was bad at it as a kid as well, to be honest? I mean, I've always been hopeless at sport, but I also needed someone to explain the rules of games, even the kind of really simple boardgames you play as a kid. I could never play a bit and pick up on the rules based on what people told me to do/not do next. And some adults clearly can pick up hockey by watching what everyone does until it makes sense. But yeah, these things do change over time and kids learn quite differently.