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I love this Russian book. It has review built in. I was just saying how I needed to go back and review the last four chapters, and look! The next four pages are genitive review!



Oof. It's really getting bloody cold here. It's below freezing right now, at a time when I'm usually getting ready to walk over to carpool to work. There might be snow eventually, which will be nice, but, brr! On the other hand this also gives me an excuse to knit ALL THE THINGS. And spin. And knit. And do funky stuff with wool and things.

And have a cat on my back, evidently. Hi, Murdock.

Human Target was pretty awesome. The writers need to be smacked about a few things, ( but then, most writers this season do. )

Okay, I'm kind of liking having Murdock on my back. He's warm, he's pleasant, he feels good. He's purring. Sadly, I have to get up in another minute and start moving, getting my shit towards the door. I could stay like this for a while. Especially if he actually lets me get my exercises in like he did this morning. Woot! It's the start of a good day.

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Typing in normal English when you've still got your Japanese keyboard on 'cause you haven't been paying attention is entertaining. Just saying.

So, this was interesting. It's an article on a certain dynamic between women in groups of women, feminist theory, and so on. Self-defeating attitudes that we adopt or adjust to. Group psychology. Group politics. It brings up a lot of interesting points, including the Magical Momma stereotype. One of my teachers fell into that stereotype, and I used to promise myself that I wouldn't. I developed arguments against it, pithy phrases and summaries of how and why to protect yourself from it. I used them so many times I forgot to use them on myself. Oops. But, the article overall is worth reading. It explains a lot of things, in some ways.

Also, Dick Cheney's looking at charges in Nigeria. I'm not sure what to make of that, but when the phrase "Dick Cheney" and "charges" came up the first thing I thought was 'war crimes.' Which says something. I'm not sure what, but I'm pretty sure it's not good.

On the other hand, I did my first embloggening today as a representative of my store! It turned out pretty well, apart from accidentally slipping into a mode of speech better suited to Spider Jerusalem. You may now enjoy the image of Spider Jerusalem sitting down to spin at a spinning wheel.

And I did dinner, and now I'm settling in to write, and I might be able to finish the first arm warmer on the Noro today. At which point I'll stop and switch back to the Brown Sheep to get those done and see how well they wash and how much that shrinks. That'll be nice and fun and so on. No, I'm running out of brain cells. Why do you ask?