{"id":40085,"date":"2019-05-31T17:28:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=40085"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:28:46","slug":"special-day-my-1900th-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/special-day-my-1900th-column\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL DAY: MY 1,900TH COLUMN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

MY 1,900TH COLUMN!<\/h1>\n

Nineteen hundred\u2014OMG\u2014I\u2019m finally in the 20th\u00a0century!<\/p>\n

\"f0ee50d431e0702b4756505058166c08\"<\/a>But, no joking around, I really cannot believe I\u2019ve written this many reviews\/stories\/essays\/articles\/lessons\/etc. I\u2019ve known myself my whole life (duh,) and even\u00a0I\u00a0<\/em>would have never thought I could ever be this disciplined. No matter how much I\u2019ve excelled at one thing or other in my life, as soon as the going got even a tad tough, I was out of there.<\/p>\n

For example, because of my expertise in first French and then Spanish, I was considered one of the top thirty Foreign Language students at my high school…of over five thousand enrollees. (Yes, you did<\/em> read that number right\u2014there were thirteen hundred thirty-one in my graduating class alone!) So the thirty of us were invited to learn Latin, (which came in handy for those of us who were going on to become doctors. Or, in my<\/em> case, when I want to say \u201cthe farmers carry water.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a>And on my college placement exam for Language, I placed in the highest bracket for Spanish. So, consequently, I didn\u2019t understand a thing we said in my first semester class.\u00a0 And, in truth, I didn\u2019t even try. It wasn\u2019t easy for me anymore, so I just accepted one of the few \u201cC\u201ds I ever received, and forgot all the foreign words I ever knew. Which is a shame. Or a l\u00e1stima. Or a honte. Or a turpe. Or a shonda. (Okay, I guess I remembered a few<\/em> words!)<\/p>\n

Even my web guy, who begged me to do this very e-zine (because we had both worked on someone\u2019s else\u2019s website previously, and he told me that the only reason that it got any readership numbers was because of my\u00a0Out To Lunch<\/em>\u00a0column,) is shocked by my stick-to-itiveness. At INAM\u2019s beginnings, he even attempted to teach the workings to Mr. X because he thought that I<\/em> wouldn\u2019t have the discipline to keep working on it! And many times a year he expresses real surprise that I\u2019m still at it.<\/p>\n

\"17523086_10212281598864984_1499444270954319358_n\"<\/a>So, here I am, at my 1,900th column. I cannot lie and say I\u2019m exactly loving<\/em> every minute of the work, but I am proud of myself. And totally appreciative of all the support from you guys, my loyal readers. (And happy to welcome new ones every day.) So a big thank you to all<\/em> of you, who wholly share in this milestone.<\/p>\n

And coincidentally, today (May 31) is my little mo\u2019s birthday. (She\u2019s not on this level of life anymore, so unlike idiots on Facebook, I cannot wish her a \u201cHappy\u201d one, but it will always be her birthday because it\u2019s the date on which she was born!) No one (outside of Mr. X, of course,) was ever prouder of my writing that she was. So I dedicate #1,900 to May Rose Salkin, who was a much better writer than I!<\/p>\n

See you all next week, when we begin our next thousand! I look forward to continuing\u00a0<\/em>the journey with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MY 1,900TH COLUMN! Nineteen hundred\u2014OMG\u2014I\u2019m finally in the 20th\u00a0century! But, no joking around, I really cannot believe I\u2019ve written this many reviews\/stories\/essays\/articles\/lessons\/etc. I\u2019ve known myself my whole life (duh,) and even\u00a0I\u00a0would have never thought I could ever be this disciplined. No matter how much I\u2019ve excelled at one thing or other in my life, as<\/p>\n

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