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Mar. 11th, 2011 07:55 amMmm. Most of the next few exercises are literary put authors into genres and categories things. Which means it's time for another wall of cyrillic: Dialogue!
( Русский язык )
Oh Bruce Boxleitner. Why you so awesome and hot when you're speechifying?
Oof. Well, Japan. I was watching some of the footage today, the tsunami sweeping over fields. Short clip from a helicopter. And at first it looks like muddy water or coffee spilling over a model, it doesn't seem real. And then I think, those are farms. And fields. We have mountains around where I live, mostly, but when I was in college it was very flat, and there were very many farms and fields, and I imagined a wave of water sweeping over that as fast as the buses that took us between the airport and the college. I have nightmares about things like that, or I used to, when I was little. Walls of water sweeping up against the windows of my house. Coming through the walls. Never mind the earthquake, shaking buildings and shearing the sides off of them.
I'm not sure if footage of walls of water and buildings shaking themselves apart going global within hours of a dire earthquake and tsunami is a good thing for the emotions. It's good to know these things are happening, and what they look like, and it's good to have empathy. And god knows I hate the idea of information not being freely available. But it's also a scary, scary thing. As with most aspects of this strange new world where information flies all over the place very, very quickly, I guess it's just something we'll have to learn how to cope with. When things get to be information overload and when we can take a little more, and what we should learn or pay attention to.
Yawn. Stretch. Another day, another political roundup, another day of monitoring the news and seeing what horrible things are happening around here lately. And closer to home, a co-worker is being monitored to see if she did have a heart attack yesterday, so there's that. Plus one of the aunts' mother-in-law's passing and she's sorting out the legalities ... oh, hell, it's been chaotic. Both in national things and in close to home things, and it's ... I'll be glad for the weekend. I've got writing deadlines I can catch up on and other stuff that needs doing. Not enough hours in the damn day, I tell you.
Mm! Someone just retweeted "The headline you won't be reading: "Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes". Buts it's the truth." And I think that's why I'm less ...bothered (if that's the right word, distressed, maybe) by Japan than I was by the Boxing Day Tsunami. I don't know so much about the political or economic situation in Japan, not in any great detail; I used to, and that information's about fifteen years old now. But my family grew up in Chile for a time, and while they were there there were a couple of earthquakes, and so I learned some primary source stories about what living with earthquakes is like where a government keeps an eye out for them, builds with the idea that they are inevitable, and tries to keep things up to code. Which I assume is what Japan is doing/has done. So, there's that.
... On the other hand, there's only so many aftershocks even the best systems can take.
( Русский язык )
Oh Bruce Boxleitner. Why you so awesome and hot when you're speechifying?
Oof. Well, Japan. I was watching some of the footage today, the tsunami sweeping over fields. Short clip from a helicopter. And at first it looks like muddy water or coffee spilling over a model, it doesn't seem real. And then I think, those are farms. And fields. We have mountains around where I live, mostly, but when I was in college it was very flat, and there were very many farms and fields, and I imagined a wave of water sweeping over that as fast as the buses that took us between the airport and the college. I have nightmares about things like that, or I used to, when I was little. Walls of water sweeping up against the windows of my house. Coming through the walls. Never mind the earthquake, shaking buildings and shearing the sides off of them.
I'm not sure if footage of walls of water and buildings shaking themselves apart going global within hours of a dire earthquake and tsunami is a good thing for the emotions. It's good to know these things are happening, and what they look like, and it's good to have empathy. And god knows I hate the idea of information not being freely available. But it's also a scary, scary thing. As with most aspects of this strange new world where information flies all over the place very, very quickly, I guess it's just something we'll have to learn how to cope with. When things get to be information overload and when we can take a little more, and what we should learn or pay attention to.
Yawn. Stretch. Another day, another political roundup, another day of monitoring the news and seeing what horrible things are happening around here lately. And closer to home, a co-worker is being monitored to see if she did have a heart attack yesterday, so there's that. Plus one of the aunts' mother-in-law's passing and she's sorting out the legalities ... oh, hell, it's been chaotic. Both in national things and in close to home things, and it's ... I'll be glad for the weekend. I've got writing deadlines I can catch up on and other stuff that needs doing. Not enough hours in the damn day, I tell you.
Mm! Someone just retweeted "The headline you won't be reading: "Millions saved in Japan by good engineering and government building codes". Buts it's the truth." And I think that's why I'm less ...bothered (if that's the right word, distressed, maybe) by Japan than I was by the Boxing Day Tsunami. I don't know so much about the political or economic situation in Japan, not in any great detail; I used to, and that information's about fifteen years old now. But my family grew up in Chile for a time, and while they were there there were a couple of earthquakes, and so I learned some primary source stories about what living with earthquakes is like where a government keeps an eye out for them, builds with the idea that they are inevitable, and tries to keep things up to code. Which I assume is what Japan is doing/has done. So, there's that.
... On the other hand, there's only so many aftershocks even the best systems can take.