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In Russian sentences with future meaning, use future tense throughout.

Когда мы будем на даче, мы будем отдыхать и загорать.
While we are at the dacha, we will relax and sunbathe.

Если пойдёт дождь, то вернёмся пораньше.
If it starts to rain, then we will return earlier.

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1. We'll look at the Kremlin when we're in Moscow. Мы поглядим Кремль, когда мы будем в Москве.
2. If the weather is hot, we'll swim. Если погода будет жаркая, мы будем плавать.
3. If it rains, we'll go to the movies. Если пойдёт дождь, мы будем идти в кино.

Aaand that's about all I'm going to do because I seriously need to review the future tense now.

Ugh. Thinking of just investing in a USB keyboard to deal with the whole missing backspace keycap problem and having done with it. Apparently I'm really rough on my laptop keyboards, or I have been in the past and they were more durable, or I've gotten worse over the years. Not sure which of the many options it is. Not sure it really matters at this point, although it's hard to tell just how bad this keyboard is. Hell, if I'd known I was going to blow through laptops at this rate I would have just gotten a desktop for size and a netbook for portability. Screw that.

Um. Slightly more coherent. I saw the premieres of Haven and Covert Affairs last night. Covert Affairs was cheesetastic fun, lots of quirky one-liners and Piper Perabo in an ultimately vapid and full of stereotypes but entertaining role. The best character so far is the blind control/support guy. The husband-wife CIA team bickering was fun but got boring very, very quickly. I hope they're not going to linger too much on that as comedy. Emma Barnes/Madison/Angell showed up, which was kind of bzuh-y, and the overall plot was easy to connect, improbable, yet entertaining. Guilty pleasure show.

Haven was a little more plot-ful and a little more character driven, but there's still nothign about it that really blows my skirt up. The sheriff has his own form of disability, the name of which I can't remember but which amounts to his nervous system giving him no sense of touch and what the hell is it with disabled characters lately being the side kick to the main chick? Or is it just that these two shows were on the same night, both featured spunky blonds with disabled dark-haired lanky/wiry cohort men, and I'm just .... drawing conclusions as well as parallels. Something. It was odd.

Right. Work now. I'm on the wrap-up scenes of Martine, which I might be able to get finished today and... that's just strange to have these last few scenes going quicker than I thought they were. It seems kind of anti-climactic, but once I have the whole thing put together I'll be able to actually look at it and see where I can expand and where everything else needs to go. And then, other Big Bangs. And stuff. Things and stuff. Stuff and things.

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Oogh. Need to get to bed earlier and not be distracted by silly muses being stupid.

So, those of you in the US and maybe some of you out of it may have heard about the shooting at a fiber optics place in Albuquerque. You may not have. It turns out, and I found part of this out yesterday and part of it out just now, that a cousin's husband worked there and was on his way in to work when shit went down. It further turns out that one of the people dead, the first person the guy shot, was his immediate supervisor and a close friend. It kind of boggles the mind. And it makes me glad, irrationally, that they're eventually coming back here. And just, stuff and things in general. Mostly along the 'holy shit' line.

Ugh. Things. Work, busy but thankfully more of the kind of busy that's constant, ongoing tasks or things I can devote 15, 30 minutes to rather than the phone constantly ringing, people constantly trying to grab me for tasks, needing to be out front, needing to answer the phone, etc. I cope so much better when I can actually sit down and do something for 20 minutes than when I'm trying to do fifteen bajillion things at once. And some backorders to be shipped out, so that ought to make people happy. And I'm remembering to do my filing more often more regularly rather than, heh, let it all pile up. Oogh.

Almost done with Martine! Hopefully by the time I go home. Dear god, it's... weird to be done with it and have it be as long as it's going to be. And I already know some things I need to do to revise it, but. Later. My first drafts, though? Are getting better and better. That's also my... um. KC, Pen, BSR, Long Road... FIFTH. Completed novel. Maybe not revised-completed, but still. My fifth fucking completed novel. I never thought I could write one. Maybe it's time to revisit the first novel I ever worked on, see how that will turn out. Holy hell, I'm a writer. Go figure.

Right. Work so I can actually finish finishing Martine.

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Doing this early because if I don't, I'm going to get to that point where it's 11:30 and I'm going "augh I haven't done my German yet." I haven't slipped very much into the habit of skipping German, and dammit, I'm not going to.

Oogh. Tired. Might try to go to bed early tonight. Especially since I got the one novel done and therefore have only to hopefully get the other two slowly worked on. Or something. And I got German done early! So that just leaves brushing teeth. Oogh. Really tired. Been tired all day, of course because I haven't been getting enough sleep. Go to bed earlier Jag.

More squirrelling away money for Dragon Con. Right now, wondering why why the hell I have a tiny but very dark bruise at the crook of my knee on the inside of my leg. Of all things. I have no idea what it's doing there or how I got it. More thinking what I'm going to go as for Dragon Con, although right now I think Cheetarah and Silk Spectre are probably good enough. I need Cheetarah boots, anyway. And I'm debating cat-eye contacts, because on the one hand, oh my god that would be cool and on the other hand I've never worn contacts before. And on the other other hand, I'd never worn 5" heels before last year's Dragon Con. Decisions.

Well. Right now the only decision I'd better be making is what to work on next because I want to at least get some more writing done before I fall asleep or something. Oi.