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And once again everything explodes and I meant to say something yesterday but everything was exploding. So around 4 or so Roomie texts me all "hey what are you doing tonight" and for the first few minutes I'm afraid she's going to ask me to go out and hang out and be out of the house for hours and noooo. I don't wanna be an extrovert. But it's not that, she wants to know if I'm up for starting the Portuguese class we talked about.

So within the space of about an hour and a half I'd found a couple of books that might be suitable (one that turned out to be very suitable) and grabbed some notebooks and mentally compiled all my language learning websites and hatched a plan to get school supplies and now we're having Monday night Portuguese. We've learned that there's a difference between Brazilian and European Portuguese, not a surprise but I didn't know the terms for the particular dialects involved, and we've found a book that'll teach us both and decided that, given the purposes are capoeira enhancement, Brazilian Portuguese would be more useful. I went and googled and found that European Portuguese is Rua Sesamo and Brazilian is Vila Sesamo and Big Bird is Garibaldo. And we watched a few Sesame Street videos. It was awesome, and I think it'll be fun if we can get the textbooks and start learning.

Today... pff. I still haven't made the habitica to-do list, though I did make progress on kicking myself out of the ditch I'd fallen into with drawing and into moving on to tackling the ultimate skill I need, with a different lesson and a different approach that it'll be easier for me to do. So there's that. I moved some things around on to-do lists so that the things I need to be at home to do are on one list and the things that are just writing that I can do on gdocs are entirely on another. And I need to get the lists together on Habitica. There's only so long I can hold all this on my head. Argh.

And. Aaaand. I need to find a way past this roadblock in Hindi. I managed to push back against the one in Arabic and get to a point where I can do at least a little bit each night but I need to get to the point in Hindi where I'm not looking at the book and groaning, and i'm not entirely sure how to do it. Bit by bit? On general stubborn, at a guess.

So. All right, I still have things to write and things to edit or run through the edits on, so that'll be most of the day in between day jobligations, and then online lessons to do too. I was going to do them last night while knitting but that turned into a Ripper Street marathon. So I guess it's bash my head against Hindi for a bit and then go to work, do work and other work and listen to lectures and things, ultimately unenroll in the Superhero course because now that I look more closely at it and actually spend some time on it, yes, it basically is a wannabe anthropology course with a very light treatment of "hi these came out of myths and legends of gods and heroes" and a skimming of the history of comics. So, no. That can get dropped. I'll find my own textbooks and do my own course. Which leaves me with three military history on two sites and one Mandarin and eventually a Human Origins course, which is a highly do-able load. Plus it's probably a good time to go back and write up those notes in a better, more neat form for American government. And organize some binders to hold all these notes from all these classes. Which means back to the to-do lists. Heh.

ETA: Hurm. S'okay, doing Hindi in the morning actually did make it more easier and bearable, so the solution might be to swap out Hindi and Japanese. At least for the next couple months if not for the duration. But on the other hand that's also a relatively easy solution, I can work with that. Woot!