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... What the fuck is the past active verb tense.

New plan, parse first, translate later. Also, I really need to go through all my language posts and clean up my tags. Also-also, that's slowly getting easier! Still! And that dictionary is AMAZING. And. Maybe a weekend hour-long project will be to go over my prepositions and note which ones take what noun case but, dude. Awesome. (And fucking prepositions, I swear.)

I always forget ... well, two things. First, ow. I always forget how easy it is to slack off exercise routines till I retool them, add in poses or exercises I haven't done in a while, and then suddenly I'm using muscles I haven't been and ow. This time I'm adding in a reminder on my iSis to retool in six weeks so this doesn't happen again, and you'd think I'd've figured that out years ago. But no. Second, I always forget how awesome Farscape is until I watch it again.

Okay, morning tasks, doing the German corrections since I didn't, as it turns out, have time to deal with those before I had to leave for work, and CS tags and mail. And remembering to finish the freaking fiber kits this time, Jag, if you have time to knit you have time to finish fiber kits. Also need to call over to the bank after morning chores are done and make that appointment with the mortgage officer.

Doing the check-in post helped quite a bit with my wibbles over whether or not I was a proper courtesan. Both in the way of reminding me of all the things I'm juggling at the moment and in the way of thinking over the things I'm having problems with so I can find solutions. Take note, folks, if you're doing any kind of self improvement project, it really is good to do it with a couple of friends. And friends who will help with critique and criticism and suggestions and different angles of approach, not just yes-friends. I mean, yes-friends are important too! But it's also good to have another perspective on what you're trying to do to offer suggestions or point out places where you might be faltering that you may not have noticed. I wouldn't have gotten this far without mine.

Right, I have a pile of work to do and it's not getting any smaller for sitting here navel-gazing. And it just got bigger since my co-worker just called out sick, so! Let's get to!

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Note to self: Print up this recipe when home. (It's a bean quesadilla, for the curious.)

And in further news, science is just fucking awesome. And terrifying. The terrifying is the mouse that roared. Or in this case, howled. Yes, this is a carnivorous mouse that howls before it kills. Like a wolf. It's fucking freaky. And then there's also the 30,000 year old flowering plant grown from seeds found in the Russian permafrost. Is this exciting or what?? You are not allowed to say or what, it is only exciting.

I feel like sort of an inverse Gune. Instead of a triumphant "I'VE FINISHED MY NAP" I want to shriek "I'M READY FOR MY NAP." I also would like to know why my right index finger feels like I've been doing all the slide notes ever. Especially when I fret with my left. And I would like to register a complain about banks requiring everything to be done NOW NOW NOW when THE BANKS won't freaking get back to you for a day per question. So, for everyone else to see and so I remember, there are four addendums (There! Are! Four! Addendums! shut up I'm punchy.) two of which aren't really a problem, but two of which boil down to: when things are signed, you have 7 days and 10 days to get the inspection and mortgage loan respectively. Now, this shouldn't actually be a problem, but I'd much much rather have the inspection and definitely the mortgage appointment before the clock starts. Because of reasons. And nerves. Anyway, the mortgage shouldn't be a problem because we were pre-approved for the original, higher amount, did the number crunching on that, and it was at the top end of our budget anyway. And this is $Gophers lower.

SO. THINGS. Note to self, self: Tomorrow morning, unless Realty Lady says something dire and different.
1. Call Mortgage Lady at bank and schedule the damn appointment.
2. Set up appointment with Inspector Guy and then email to thank him for his patience and confirm. (Tues 9?)
3. POTENTIAL: Meet with Realty Lady and sign paperwork to start clock in a timely fashion.

And I think that's all the really big things I need to keep in my head for the next 24-48 hours. And once these potential appointments become real appointments I can keep them in my iSis and not have to worry about keeping them in my head. Because right now, dear lord and mother of all, I am amazed I can keep anything in my head for more than an hour or two at this rate. Oh, further note to self: Go back and look over the to-write list for today when you get home because none of that got done in between all the OTHER work and non-work related shit. But I did get languages and my publishing schedule fixed.

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No Japanese tonight, I plain run out of time.

So tired. So very tired. And my fingertip is still doing that weird thing, so now I'm resorting to Dragon. I will say, it's gotten a lot better about learning by various quirks and all the damn sci-fi names I keep throwing at it. I also expect some sneaky Dragon typos to show up somewhere in whatever I'm getting done tonight. If I get anything done tonight.

No, that's not true, that's just the exhaustion talking. Talking to Realty Lady happened, talking to the bank will happen tomorrow morning probably before I'm ready for it. At least tomorrow morning's Irish. And then making an appointment for an inspection will happen, and at some point I need to get some names for some real estate attorneys. And all that happened within the last six hours, I think. And now I just feel tired and brain-dead and I want to go to bed and not write anything. Which will put me even further behind, which will annoy me even more, and leave me feeling even more exhausted. I hate this game. I hate the Red Queen's Race.

The upside to all of this is, I'm getting back in the rhythm of Dragon again. And that's a good rhythm to be in when I have a lot of knitting to do. Not so good when I have the sniffles, but that's when the entertaining typos happen!

All those of you who follow me on Tumblr might see some of these. I can't guarantee a laugh, but I can at least guarantee some of them will make you go, wait, what?