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Right. New plan. Typing up the rules for Prepositional case and practicing at work. Because four pages of information is not going to result in exercises being done this morning.

Masculine Nouns

If the word has a hard ending, that is, a consonant other than -й or -ь, add -e: в университете
If the word ends in -й or -ь, drop that letter and add -e: в словаре
If the resulting ending in the prepositional case would be -ие, change it to -ии: в кафетерии.

Neuter Nouns

If the word ends in -о drop that letter and add -е: в отчестве
If the word ends in -е there is no change: в платье
If the resulting ending in the prep case would be -ие change it to -ии: общежитие -- в общежитии

Feminine Nouns

If the word ends in -а or -я, drop the last letter and add -е: в школе
If the word ends in -ь, drop that letter and add -и: на кровати
If the resulting ending in the prepositional case would be -ие, change it to -ии: Россия, России

Plural Nouns (all genders)

If the singular form ends in a hard consonant or -a or -o, drop the -a or -o (if applicable) and add -ах: в учебниках, в школах
If the singular form has a soft ending (-й, -ь, -я, or -е), drop that letter and add -ях: в словарях, в общежитиях

Masculine and Neuter Adjectives

The regular ending is -ом: новом
If the letter prior to that ending is ш, щ, ч, ж, ц and the ending is unstresed, then the ending is -ем : хорошем
The ending for naturally soft adjectives is -ем: синем

Feminine Adjectives

The regular ending is -ой: новой
If the letter prior to that ending is ш, щ, ч, ж, ц and the ending is unstresed, then the ending is -ей : хорошей
The ending for naturally soft adjectives is -ей: синей

Plural Adjectives
All adjectives have the same ending in the prepositional plural, regardless of gender. The two possible forms of this ending are -ых and -их.

The basic ending is -ых:
If the adjective is naturally soft, the prepositional plural form is -их:
If the last letter before the adjectival ending is к, г, ш, щ, х, ж, or ч the prepositional plural form is -их:

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I need a break. You need a break. All God's chillun need breaks. At least two other baby courtesans need breaks. We're not getting 'em, though. Mrrgh.

Right. I do not have a brain bleed. Just because I leaned back two inches too far last night and bonked my head on the table does not mean I am dying like Natasha Richardson. I am dizzy and headachy 'cause I got five hours' sleep last night because the damn cat woke me up, and then the boy woke me up to tell me the cat was hitting him. Hitting you? Motherfucker, I'll hit you. Shut up and let me sleep.

Never mind. In the interests of the meme, something today that makes me happy. I did languages yesterday, so today won't be writing, that goes later. Let's do... painting.

I like painting. I wish I could do more of it but by the time I get home I just have way too many things to do to paint, so it's mostly a weekend thing. And considering what I get done on the weeknights, I don't mind all that much. I paint miniatures, not portraits or pictures or things. Which is to say I take a small chunk of metal shaped into the form of a person or a creature or a thing and I color it up to look like what it was sculpted to be.

I like painting. I like seeing the color go layered on to the mini and seeing it take shape under my hands. I like looking at a mini and speculating what color will go where and even taking hours to decide what shade of brown to paint that leather. I like the fact that I'm getting good at it. I'm not exactly all-star material yet, but for as relatively little as I've practiced, I am getting good at it. I've painted for... maybe three years or so. Off and on, but total time, maybe only twelve to fourteen months. And still, I've gotten to the point where I can see layers and lights and shadow on my minis, and know where my areas of weakness that I want to work on are.

I also like the fact that it's restful. That I can paint and be productive and produce something good and beautiful to make me feel better, and it requires just enough concentration to keep me from thinking of the bad or hard things, but not enough that I can't daydream. That is a big, big plus for me. There aren't that many activities that I can do that, and writing is right out. As it were.

So, yes. Today's joy: Painting minis! And as soon as I figure out the logistics of getting a working camera there may be pictures of said minis.




... you know, happy entry aside, my headspace is a really scary place right now. Someone remind me to meditate when I get home and sort myself out or something? Or help me sort myself out. This is some wicked not-cool shit in here.