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And now, pain in the ass dialogues. I hate writing dialogue cold in a language I don't know that well.

1. Call up a friend and ask what he or she is doing. Invite him to go out.
Алло, Миша! Говорит Джаг.
Здравствуй... сколько сейчас времени?
Сейчас восемь часов.
Восемь часов? Какой сегодня день?
Сегодня вторник. Ты встаёшь?
Нет.
Не хочешь пойти в кино в час?
Нет. В четыре часа?
Договорились. Ну, пока.
Доброй ночи.

2. Your friend calls you up and invites you to the library. Accept the invitation and decide when you will go.

Алло, Джаг! Говорит Саша.
Алло, Саша!
Что ты сейчас делаешь?
Изучаю русский язык.
Ты свободна в четыре часа?
Сколько сейчас времени?
Три часа.
Да, я свободна в четыре часа.
Не хочешь пойти в библиотеку?
Договорились.

I think I got all that right. I hate trying to make up dialogue based on phrases I know the shape of but not the meaning behind them or the construction. Ah well.

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I do, in fact, kick quite a bit of ass. Today I have managed to get one essay drafted, another one outlined, finished outlining what's going to wind up being a novella of a Dresden Files fanfic, and am outlining my PolyBigBang fics. Which, no, are not bandom. What the hell is with that challenge and bandom?

Tomorrow I am once again doing the shift swap. Not working Thursday, one of the most staffed days of the week, in order to work Saturday when they're down one person and in this case it's over the Craft Guild of the Southern Highlands or... something like that. Guild Show weekend. Point being, it's not a weekend they can afford to be a man (or woman, in this store's case mostly) down on that weekend. So. Tomorrow I stay home... well, go out and get a haircut and then come home. Clean house. And do editing and writing and a little bit of coding if I can manage it. Mostly editing and writing.

Right. A list. Before my brain gets any more scattered, a list of things I need to do tomorrow.

1. The Fix
2. Essays
3. Something off the SGA to-do list
4. Something off the WR Dresden Files to-do list

... crap. If anyone can come up with anything else I need to be doing tomorrow, let me know? Otherwise it's a big editing push.

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Verrrbs. The verbs that change shape when you conjugate. That sounds faintly dirty.

Was geben wir Christin? Christin needs things for her room at the university. Tell what various friends are giving her.

1. Claudia gibt zwei Hefte.
2. Maria und Volker geben ein Radio.
3. Wir geben eine Lampe.
4. Ihr gibst eine Uhr.
5. Frau Hauff gibt eine Tasche.
6. Du gibst ein Buch über Musik.
7. Ich gebe zwei Kugelschreiber.

Im Cafe. Complete the conversation among three friends in a cafe by supplyin gthe appropriate form of the verb in parentheses.

CLAUDIA: Du, Lars, was nimmst du?
LARS: Ich nehme ein Stück Kuchen. Du auch?
CLAUDIA: Nein, aber Ina nimmt ein Stück, nicht wahr?
INA: Nein. Kuchen esse ich nicht so gern.
CLAUDIA: Was isst du denn gern?
INA: Eis. Es gibt hier sehr guts Eis.
LARS: Und zu trinken? Was nimmst ihr beide? Kaffee oder Tee?