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( Русский язык )

FUCKING LAWNMOWERS.

So, Japanese last night was not with the happening. Which was purely a discipline problem on my part. Still, German did happen, and it might not get typed up for a little while since it doesn't seem to be helping and/or I don't have anyone correcting it online, so as long as I get the practice, that's what's important.

Writing continues, and while I'm nowhere near where I should be on Nano yet I'm slowly getting back into the grove of working on it daily, which is also important. Especially considering my usual writing speed. It's the beginning that killed me. I haven't yet figured out how to write a beginning that didn't bog me down in oh god what am I doing feelings. Whether it's did I put enough physical description in (which I actually remembered to do this time!) or am I taking too long describing the setting, is there enough action, oh god, I shouldn't be freaking out this much, beginnings are to set the scene and you know this... I hate beginnings. And endings. Things just sort of keep going on and they never reach a natural stopping point. Give me a nice, solid middle I can sink my teeth into, I can write that. Everything else is hard.

Okay, writing in general is hard. But we all know this. You've heard me whine about it often enough.

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( 日本語 )

Routines, routines, routines. There, I have preserved my routines and practiced things I need to practice. I even practiced some Russian vocab today, scoring pretty damn good on Russian to English and about 50% on English to Russian. I might have to institute this with other languages, too, it seems to be a really handy way to practice.

I finally caved and got an Audible account, mostly for The Bourne Identity which my local library did not have (go figure), but also because hey, audiobooks, right? Only I think I need an internet connection on my iSis to do much of anything on it, so that'll have to wait till tomorrow when I'm at work. I think. I think that's how this works. I'm still eyeing it warily, but hey. The app was free, and audiobooks!