kittydesade | Jul. 13th, 2012

( Gaeilge )

I think that's right. I'm not sure. I might take my Irish books to work and work on that instead of Russian today. Oi.

Couldn't decide between practicing all the verb conjugation ever and just keeping on with grammar points. Went with verb conjugation because in my opinion that was not well explained. Thankfully I now have TWO grammar books, ah-ha! I feel like I should write one giant comprehensive textbook for review. I might actually do that, only in a series of composition notebooks more than anything else. Stupid small-pool languages.

In some ways, when I look at how these books talk about Irish dialects, I wonder if this isn't so much a matter of being mutually incomprehensible as a matter of course, but a matter of being mutually incomprehensible to outsiders. Which gives me hope that with a strong linguistic background and a good grounding in Standard Irish grammar I can understand someone with a dialect if they speak slowly.

Shadowrun last night went well except for the part where we're (the party) totally fucked. But it was fun hanging out with people again, that hasn't happened in a while on account of being buried in house shit. And Pixie and Boudicca and I might be going and doing a girly spa thing. My first ever! And not normally something I would do but after this I want to be fucking pampered, you guys. I need to start a round of emails and see what everyone's schedule is. ... Fuck. When did I become logistics girl? Goddammit!

Yes, I joined a new dragcave like thingie. Fortunately this one doesn't kill the eggs if you don't hatch them in a specific time. Unfortunately this one requires clicks and not just views, so please click! Or they'll keep popping up and I'll keep annoying you with them.

( Deutsch )

DIE OUTLINE DIE.

So, there. I finished that outline, now I have to finish the supplementary documents and then I will have done many things. I think I might even, unless we're going out tonight, be able to finish at least two of the supplementary documents tonight. I just need to get into the mindset of doing scholastic/scientific papers. Oh goodie.

I'm having one of those weeks where I remember why I study languages. Most of them are going well and none of them are going poorly, and Irish and Russian are exploding with understanding right now. I can conjugate verbs in Irish. Guys, you have no idea how happy that makes me. I can carry around a book of verbs now and just conjugate wherever I go WHAT. You knew I was a dork when you started reading this journal. Stop looking at me like that.

I need to make a goals list for the weekend. I need to remember what the hell I was going to do over the weekend. Cut a costume, I think. Cut at least part of a costume, and set up a sewing area in the living room because the craft room is now full of packed shit. That ought to do for this weekend, if I take it in slow steps I won't overburden myself and hit burnout. And pick up the pattern for the other costume, forgot about that. And rearrange the craft room so a lot of the boxes ... actually, rearrange all three of the big rooms so that the boxes are in the bedroom and craft room and I have space in the main room to put my sewing shit. That ought to be enough walking around things to do this weekend, plus tidying. And then, too, writing stuff. So, there! That's my to-do list for the weekend. Language reviews intermittently as I need amusement.

... Yeah, I think this more energy thing is at least holding for a few days. When this house stuff finishes and I actually have all my spoons back on a regular basis I suspect I'm going to be shocked by what I can do.

Clicky the clickables! The four on the end are new. I think I'm going to just try to keep posting new ones for the small ones every time, since those cycle faster than DragCave. Whaaat. I like my pixel pets.