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( Русский язык )

Argh. Brain no worky. And translating to Russian is definitely more difficult than translating back. Which means it needs more practice.

Today, apparently, we need to get more felting pads from a local foam and fabric store, which means I get to peruse fabrics for my steampunk skirt! Yay! I don't know if I'll actually get anything but I get to look at least. Looking at fabrics is always fun. And I have the pattern with me so I know exactly what I need. Which is not 3 1/4 buttons, Jag, what the hell. Oi, brain needs to get online sometime soon.

Did manage to get most of the shit off my to-do list yesterday, at least. And get to bed early, even if I didn't get as much writing done as I wanted to. Today, working on more of my to-do list! And attempting to drag my brain back to the projects I need to be working on. Writing long fiction is hard, yo. I keep losing the thread and not being able to resume it. Most irksome. On the other hand, hopefully... Yes, the UPS widget says today will be a relatively light day. So if no major orders come in, it should be pretty good.

Writing. I need to get back on Sandstorm's Daughter. I'm slowly getting back on International Relations. And apart from that, mostly, it's just much much smaller side projects. Never, ever doing a non-original big bang again. Never. Or at least, never until the next time, because we all know me, yeah?

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( 日本語 )

.. Okay, my Japanese handwriting is for shit. I think I got that last part right. Hurm.

I am verging on not fit for human company right now, for oh so many reasons. Starting with the fact that my UPS software has been crashing my computer at seemingly random (read: we haven't been able to figure out what causes it) intervals, sliding into the one piece of writing I've been meaning to do for a couple months triggering a discussion that pissed me off more and more the longer it went on (I totally should have shut up and stopped ranting fifteen minutes in but did I? Nooooo.) and ending in a piece of journalism that in and of itself didn't piss me off so much as the quotes from the bigoted sheepfucking jackhole who said that it should be rapidly becoming clear that an amendment to the US Constitution to enshrine marriage as between a man and a woman only was very much necessary. You know what? Fuck you too. Let me pack you up and ship you off to the place where you're at best a second class citizen and at worse sick and perverted and wrong and you molest small children and see how you like it. Whoreson shitforbrains.

Mostly the only reason this exists is so I can give warning of cranky Jag and practice my Japanese. Last day of practicing this particular form, and then the next grammar point. Also, in other costume news, I got fabric for my skirt today and hopefully will cut it out. Buttons will be ordered. It needs twenty per skirt and I'm not doing that to some poor store.

... Seriously, this urge to do ... strange or drastic things to muses can't be good. Right. Focusing, and getting writing done right now. Then relaxing tonight.