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( Russian )

Okay. Dammit. I will finish things today, I will do things, I will get things done. And I have helpers, and there will be a link roundup, and so on. I'm wearing green so I don't get assaulted by overly festive people, not the green and yellow I meant but green nonetheless. And I cleaned out my bag so I'm not carrying around a bunch of books I don't mean to be.

It's still cold. Argh. Too much of a hurry augh.

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( Deutsch )

Gel pens really do make a lot of things better. Up to and including vocab quizzes. They have not yet managed to make query letters better, though, and should really work on this.

Although since I started this post I have actually written most of a query letter that I hope did not suck. I think. I hope. This part of the process makes me less nervous than it used to, I think mostly because now I'm operating under an assumption of nothing happening. But it's still annoying. I'm not at all good at selling myself. Shut up, peanut gallery.

I need mirin. Which means a grocery store run is happening this evening, because the only places that sell mirin are either a bit of a hike from work (which is more doable now that it's getting warmer) or past where I live on the road between here and home, or completely in another part of town. Which is still doable, but it's also not at the grocery store we do our regular grocery shopping on weekends or whatever day the boy and I can both go. And all of this by way of saying, I wonder if Amazon has mirin under their subscribe and we'll ship it to you service. I'd like to get it local if I can, but part of me also thinks that would be a useful thing to have on a two-month subscription. Three month? I have no idea how quickly I go through it, other than not quickly. Oof. No, of course it isn't. Neither is miso. Well, there goes that idea. ... You know, I'd much rather have mirin and miso and maybe hoisin sauce or something on subscribe and save than Pop-Tarts. Or sweet chili sauce.

Oh well. Buying local is better for you anyway. Still, I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of paying periodically for groceries you'd pay periodically for anyway, and then they ship them to you. And you can cancel or change your ship dates any time. I may have to poke at this some more.

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( 日本語 )

I have mirin and a bamboo mat and nori and a fierce desire to start making my own sushi. Unfortunately I do not have the knowledge to make my own sushi. I'm sure the internet does, though. And books. Books are useful. If anyone wants to rec a title or a website that would be lovely, otherwise I will trundle over to either the library or the bookstore and occupy a bench for a short while. Or I might actually attempt to read that Japanese cookbook I have. It's in German.

Go on, picture the catastrophe that could ensue. I'll wait. And giggle.

Oof. Pleased, rather, that I've got help on the link roundups, although I could use one or two more hardy souls. I'm really disappointed in, oh, everyone. This isn't the country I signed up for. On the plus side, we're slowly becoming a decently organized team as far as getting information goes. On the other hand, if we were to add budget fuckery in general and How The Middle Class Is Getting Screwed to the list, we'd need at least double the news crew. And possibly a dedicated journal. The idea is actually kind of appealing in that I should never ever do this way.

I could also use another filthy assistant at least. The procedure is pretty simple and right now it's me, Anna, and two others. Spend about 30 minutes on this in a 24 hour period, much more and we might all go nuts. Take three states from the unclaimed list (it's in the gdoc). Collect somewhere between 2-4 links, toss them into the g-doc in their state, alphabetized, and add a 1-3 sentence summary. What kind of summary? Think, the opening paragraph of a news article. Action taken, agent of action, recipient of action, location. And then you're done. I'll be collecting it all and posting it around 10pm EST when it looks like it's gotten big enough, and aiming for 3x per week. It may end up being more depending on how much fuckery is going on. We're aiming for collective bargaining rights fuckery, although we'll accept turning a state into a dictatorship fuckery. Michigan, I'm looking at you. You can PM me or poke me via comment or email if you have my email (or the LJ email works too), or talk to lireavue.

Also, I'm Yelena. This pleases me. Even if I did sleep with Spider Jerusalem.