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( Gaeilge )

Yep, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins in a scenery eating contest is still the most awesome thing to grace my TV screen since ... well, since Katherine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, and Anthony Hopkins in Lion in Winter. Om nom nom nom nom.

I swear I got up on time and somehow I ended up being lateish on my exercises. Oops. On the other hand Irish went quick, so at least I got the rest of them done after that. Also ow. I tried working on the exercises with weights on my arms. Ow.

Did at least manage to get most of the Julien/Syd story out last night, and now I just have to finish it up and strip the edits out of that and the other draft, maybe, and then send to my inside source to check which of the now-three stories would be most suitable for submission. Edits on Subversive Mummies, drafting something for the other place, and that's more than enough for today, particularly with translations. I don't have anything in particular for Russian practice today. Might just dig for verbs I haven't gone over and do those. I think... no, yeah, I intend today to work on Subversive Mummies in the morning and then further drafts for stories in the afternoon. If only I could come up with some damn thing for the third market I intend to submit to.

Actually, if I'm very lucky with that, I should be able to do edits on Subversive mummies tonight, too, and get a fair chunk of THAT done soon. Which would be awesome because then it's Blood in the Gutters and oh dear god what is that thing.

Also yesterday (I swear I have to remind myself to put not-writing news in here) I took a wild hair and cleaned the patio. Pesach cleaning may end up happening a little later than usual. I don't know why. I think because my body/subconscious/chi is reacting to the coldass weather and going "It's not spring yet! It's not spring yet it's not spring yet it's not HEY IT'S SPRING CLEAN ALL THE THINGS." Fucking weather. But that's done and possibly tomorrow evening there will be more hauling shit out of the garage. If I manage to achieve an empty garage I will be all the stoked.

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Today is apparently that day when there are fifty and one sesquitillion small things to do, none of which are made better by everyone trying to get everyone else to do their job. FUCK OFF I AM EATING LUNCH. Though, I also should go back and pull all the vocab I've been looking up from previous Russian practice sessions and review THAT too.

On the plus side, Russian is coming a lot easier, at least initially? There's still a shitpot of looking words up in the dictionary, but attaching endings to them is becoming a lot easier, the conjugation patterns are falling into place. Recovering from errors is taking less time and energy, which is also good. Less immediate hit of "I'm a fucking moron I can't do this why do I bother."

This morning was annoyingly hellish and I did not get any of the damn things I wanted to do, done. Hopefully this afternoon will be less so. As it is, sorely tempted to go home and drink whiskey and eat sugar cookies. Not that I will, but I'm sorely tempted. Maybe fruit juice, vodka, and something healthy for dinner.