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I'm still a little boggled by the fact that I'm on chapter eight. What the hell. Also that by now, all the questions on the dialogues are just questions in Russian and I have to answer them. And I can. Dude.

Диалог 1
1. Что хочет делать друг Пети? Почему? Друг Пети хочет идти на рынке, потому что у его соседки день рождения и он хочет купить подарок.
2. Что забыл Петя? День рождения соседки.
3. Что Петя советует купить? Книгу.
4. Где можно купить интересные вещи? На рынке.
5. Куда они идут сегодня? Они идут на рынке.

Диалог 2
1. Кто разговаривает в этом диалоге? Покупатель и девушка.
2. Где они? В магазине.
3. Что хочет купить покупатель? Какого цвета эта вещь? Платье синее.
4. Сколько она стоит? Двести семьдесят.
5. Как можно платить? Кредитные карточки.
6. Куда надо платить? В кассу.



I definitely need to get more comfortable with vocabulary and noun forms. I'm thinking that'll happen after I get through chapters 8, 9, and 10 though... or maybe a quick review after chapter 8. Because it's mostly just vocab and noun forms that I'm balking at. And then a longer review of maybe a month after this book, and then the second book. Guh. Which will probably half be in Russian.

It's Monday. I don't want to be up. I woke up at 3.15 last night and took a while to get back to sleep and I don't want to be up. On the plus side, at least I'm not having weirdass dreams about Michael Wincott skipping through the quad of my college campus singing what I think was the Smurfs theme song. No, I don't know what that was about, nor am I on any drugs. It was, however, very odd.

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Sweet cream Jesus on a whole wheat cracker I love my iSam.

iSamで漢字で書けます！
おたくですね。

Okay, for those of you who are only seeing question marks or boxes or something, I wrote, in kanji, "I can write on my iSam in Kanji! I am a huge dork, yes?"

Apparently this is less cool if you don't have the alphabets installed.

It still amused me. Hush. XD

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Dependent clauses and subordinating conjunctions. We all remember what a dependent clause is, yes?

Two signals distinguish a dependent clause from an independent clause: First, it is introduced by a subordinating conjunction, second, the finite verb is at the end. A few common subordinating conjunctions are: bevor - before, obwohl - although, weil - because, wenn - if or when.

Österreicher fahren in die Ferlen. Wie und wo verbringen viele Österreicher die Ferien? Verbinden Sie die Sätze mit den Konjunktionen in Klammern.

1. Die Österreicher finden es auch gut, dass ungarn nicht so weit ist.
2. Sie können nicht vor Mitte Juli fahren, weil die Sommerferien beginnen erst dann.
3. Nach Prag fahren sie auch oft, wenn die Ferien kurz sind.
4. Viele Musikfans bleiben in Österreich, wenn im Sommerferien in Bregenz und Salzburg die Festspiele sind.
5. In den Winterferien fahren viele Österreicher nach Italien, weil das Skilaufen dort billiger ist.
6. Es ist gut für die Österreicher, dass ihr Land in Mitteleuropa liegt.

Oof. Right, no, leaving the rest of dependent clauses for tomorrow. Achey and tired. I am, however, rather amused by the TV show Human Target. And way more enamored of Jackie Earle Haley than I think I want to be. For the uninitiated, he played Rorschach. And now, in this show, he looks like a hippie folk musician from the seventies. And several of my relatives were or knew hippie folk musicians from the seventies, so I know whereof I speak.

And, you know. There's nothing like a bit of a discussion of That Person before you go to bed. You know, the one who still mildly rankles me today, even though every time I get into this discussion that rankle goes down some as I try, and try, and hone my craft, and discuss some more. And then I listen to people who have read her (up to and including people who don't actually know she irritates me personally) and are all "well, she's okay to read, but..." Apparently this author lady has no concept of delicacy when it comes to symbolism, can't craft a story with a logical progression of events to save her life and no matter how many layers she throws on it that doesn't help the reader, and writes sentences like a bored Victorian era housewife arranges flowers while gossiping about every other woman of her acquaintance. Which is to say, with nigh-obsessive attention to detail and a sense of aesthetic and moral superiority.

Anyway. One paragraph is about all I should waste on that kind of sentiment. ... although I just heard her work compared to Avatar and now I'm giggling way more than I should be at this hour of night.

Oogh. My wrist is hurting, which isn't good, but it's only hurting a little and this week is largely devoted to reading things over and making edits. So at least there's that. Now, teeth, finishing tags, counting up my words, possibly assembling a whole outline's worth of notes for Long Road, and bed. Actually, hm. Printing out the outline of notes for Long Road might benefit me tomorrow if I decide to go hang out at the front desk and if it's as dead as I suspect it might be in shipping. Hmm. Debate debate.

Oh, hell. Teeth, finishing tags, counting up words, and assembling notes and then BED.

OH! Oh. I remember what I was going to write about! That book, Poison Study? I'm going to have to force myself to finish it, and I still haven't finished Kitty and the Midnight Hour. I peeked to the back of the book once I was about 75 pages in just to see if the pairing I suspected was happening (it's that kind of hate hate enemy omglove! thing) was happening and, yes. At the end there's apparently a whole I swear we'll never be apart again type thing going on. Sigh. I'd be a lot more impressed if he turned into a psycho stalker, honestly. The writing remains somewhere between plum and aubergine, the plotting... I will be surprised if I can't predict everything that happens between a hundred and two hundred pages out, and there is nothing new or innovative in this book worth picking up. I can't remember who the author is, but if anyone suggests you read a book called Poison Study? It wasn't me.