Strummin' my heart with my fingers

It's been a bit of a busy week, thus no posts lately. School is a lot of fun this term. In fact, I can tell that I'm progressing with both my guitar playing and my drawing, which is tremendously exciting. It takes a lot of hard practice, of course, but it's worth it. As far as culinary adventures, last night I cooked up some chicken thighs. After 45 minutes in the oven, the bread crumbs were almost black but the chicken was still pink inside and it bled when I cut to the center of it, so I put it in the microwave and it turned out okay. Good thing I was the only one eating it. :) (I'll admit that it's kind of disheartening when most of my cooking experiments end up as level 4 disasters, but I still have an undying and probably unrealistic hope that someday I'll blossom into a good cook. Someday, someday...)

I've decided to embark on a new project: to develop a small set of materials to help teach people how to read Thai (mostly focusing on those who already speak it, particularly missionaries), and a companion set to teach how to type Thai. I've experimented a bit with some ways of teaching the latter and it doesn't seem like it would be too hard to come up with a graded series of exercises, repetitive enough to help one remember where the keys are but not so much that it's boring. I'm not really sure what the best way is to teach reading, though, but I'm going to look into it and see what's available. The linguist in me is coming alive after several months of lying dormant (must be midnight or something). :)