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( Russian )

Okay, the Scarecrow and Mrs. King is made of adorable and more seasons need to be out now. Right now. I love this show, I love it to bits, young Boxleitner is ten shades of adorable even if he's about as threatening as a sleepy kitten and the show in general is lighthearted and funny. And very 80s. The Russians are the bad guys again, certain words are not spoken on television although there's a remarkable lot of euphemistic talk about sex. Which is kind of amusing because that's more than was ever on B5 OR Tron. But this is definitely what the doctor ordered.

It also is doing... something. Either that or relaxing is helping my language skills, or I completely botched the Russian, because that was the easiest translation's been in a while.

Oof. It's still freaking freezing outside, no fair. I was supposed to be walking in the morning by now. On the other hand, I'm getting in an afternoon/evening walk every day, which kind of makes up for it. So I guess... something. I did, at least, get some damn sleep last night, uninterrupted by headaches. And no headaches this morning. That's a good thing, right? Of course right.

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( Deutsch )

Apparently, teachers unions are now Hamas. Because banding together to get a fair wage and a decent class size so that you can be an effective teacher is exactly like terrorism and murder. Except not.

So, I lied. Or, more accurately, I got staff. Anna has kindly volunteered to help out with two states, another person who I will not call a filthy assistant I swear has offered to help out with another three, and that leaves about three potentially eleven more states with shenanigans going on that I'll be actively monitoring. Wisconsin matters will still go on at lireavue's journal as usual, and so on and so forth, other states here. Having helpers and a three or four day break really, really makes a difference. Anna's probably also right, though. Not having protests here to go recharge and not feel quite so much shouting in a vacuum is not helping.

(And if anyone has taken up that slack and I've missed it, someone let me know?)

I just discovered today that one of the cousins is in Japan. In Tokyo, and apparently no one's too concerned, presumably because they've heard from him, but, dyaugh. Then again, this is the cousin who lives in Chicago and tours regularly with a band, so I'm not too surprised that we just seem to have found this out now. And yet. I guess he's okay? He's supposedly playing a concert, so one presumes either the concert was cancelled and they're staying indoors till it's time to go home or they're in a place with electricity enough to run the concert. I don't know. I really don't know what to think. ... Okay, googling their name with Tokyo concert got me the date and that it is not cancelled yet. So. I still don't know what to think.

Anyway. Knitting, to settle my nerves from finding that out, and work and so on, and at some point there will be more updates with stuff. Oh! And purchasing of gel pens from across the street, because gel pens are awesome and I let mine dry out, sadly. Years ago. But I want to make pretty colored kanji. Because I'm five years old like that.

Oh. Also, you guys? Our world is just awesome. Highest to lowest.

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( 日本語 )

I'm torn between being all "yay, I have helpers!" and "yay, I have filthy assistants!" I guess that depends on how up these people are on their Spider Jerusalem, because there's really a whole lot of room for misunderstanding there. Still, I have help. Which is the key thing. And very much welcome. I also have Twizzlers, which is good, and query letters to write, which is bad. On the plus side, some of that support material is already written, so there's that.

Oof. It's still cold. I don't want it to be cold anymore. I want it to be warm and spring already. I want ... well, I want a lot of things. Right now I'll settle for warmth and more hours in the day. Okay, not so much that last part, I've learned how to cope with everything I want to get done and do everything I need to do and so on. I've even learned how to (gasp, shock) cope with taking a vacation or an enforced vacation due to illness for a bit. I just want more. So I can do more. Because I have an active brain.