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[kittydesade]

Ненужный вопрос. Уверен, что Гесер прекрасно знает, где сейчас Светлана.
- Один. Девочки на даче.
- Хорошее дело, -вздохнул шеф на том конце трубки, и в голосе его появились совсем человеческие нотки. -Ольга вот тоже утром в отпуск улетела... половина сотрудников на югах греется... Ты мог бы сейчас подойти в офис?

An unnecessary question. I was certain Gesar knew perfectly well where Svetlana was just then.
"Yes. The girls are at the dacha."
"Good for them." The boss sighed at the other end of the line, and an entirely human note appeared in his voice. "Olga flew off on vacation this morning too... half the Watch staff are sunning themselves in southern climes... Think you could come around to the office right away?"

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[noun/adjective/thing affirmative by repetition] [plural noun] [implied copula verb] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun prep.)]
[adjective] [noun]. [verb past tense] [noun] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative, noun prepositional, noun genitive)] [coord. conj] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative, pronoun genitive)] [verb past tense plural] [adverb] [adjective plural] [noun plural]. [Proper noun] [???] [adverb?] [noun dative? here used as adverb] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative)] [verb past tense]... [fuckifIknow. adverb locative?] [noun plural] [prepositional phrase (preposition, adjective, noun?)]... [pronoun] [verb] [particle?] [adverb] [verb infinitive] [prepositional phrase (preposition, noun accusative)]


Russian is slowly getting better again. Maybe not again, but I feel like it's getting better from where it was stagnating. Helped in no small part both by Memrise and by reading Twilight Watch in the original. I'm having a lot of fun finding where the translations are more semantic than literal, where it's more of a gesture than a maneuver than a word for word. I mean, I do this in Spanish and French relatively a lot, but it's fun doing it in Russian too.

Termite people and engineering people called, now I just wait for callbacks and email people back. Yay. Well, kind of yay. Yay in that I get a fucking break from paperwork and deadlines and things. Kind of yay in that there's still more stuff to do.

And then for some reason I got into one of those end of the world discussions and how the house would probably be pretty good for surviving in. Foot thick walls and a fair amount of space for gardening and so on.

Right. I have writing to do, both in terms of things I have to get done and in terms of ideas that are gnawing on my brain. Might as well do that since I don't actually have much packing to do.

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[kittydesade]

Y'welcome! There's definitely some grinding, but a lot of the more common language vocab sets don't start out with the basic words you'd expect, so it's not always that bad.