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[kittydesade]

Oh dear sweet baby Jesus this is an excessive lot of … stuff.

Charts first.

Здесь есть письмо. There is a letter here.
Здесь есть библиотека. There is a library here.
Там есть книги. There are books there.
У родителей есть компьютер.My parents have a computer.
У неё есть платье. She has a dress.
У Бориса есть машина. Boris has a car.
У меня есть деньги. I have money. (HAH.)
У студентов есть дискети. The students have disks.

Здесь было письмо. There was a letter here. (Randomly, that makes me more aware that past tense in English implies greater distance, and so for the same distance from the speaker it's as common if not more so to use 'there.' Huh.)
Здесь была библиотека. (There was a library here.)
Там были книги. There were books there.
У родителей был компьютер. My parents had a computer. (Also interesting in that the book translates this as 'my' parents.)
У неё было платье. She had a dress.
У Бориса была машина. Boris had a car.
У меня были деньги.I had money. (That's more like it.)
У студентов были дискети. The students had disks.

Что у вас было? Your friends told you they forgot to take many things on their trip last week. How would you ask if they had the following items?

Деньги, чемодан, одежда, книги, газета, джинсы, фотоаппарат, компьютер, радио, кроссовки, словарь, роман Пелевина.

У вас были деньги?
У вас был чемодан?
У вас была одежда?
У вас были книги?
У вас была газета?
У вас были джинсы?
У вас был фотоаппарат?
У вас был компьютер?
У вас было радио?
У вас были кроссовки?
У вас был словарь?
У вас был роман Пелевина?


If my aunt got me sick, I'm going to kill her.

Unless there's a lot of stuff coming in by UPS today (which I don't think there will be?) it should be relatively quiet. Which will be good, because I can get a fair bit of writing and bead restocking done. I'm about to kill UPS, though. Stop losing my damn packages! And people who don't fucking well check their university mailroom before they call us and tell us they didn't receive the shipment. Yes you did! Unless you can tell me who signed for it, thereby indicating that you did go and ask the person and they didn't have it, I am not talking to UPS about a shipment that they, obviously, did not lose. Rarr stabbity.

Still sniffy. Still stuffed up in the head. Still pissy about being sniffly and stuffed up in the head. Did have an excellent curry last night, though, which helped. Just the tasty goodness of it and, probably, the curry, too. Curry spices and coconut milk is often the right answer.

I'm putting some of the Russian stuff on my iPod, at least, so even if I don't remember to bring the laptop to work (eep need to pack up now augh) I'll have that. And, hmm. Or, wait, no. I can't. Bollocks. Right, packing up now. On the plus side, I'm remembering to make more foreign language icons! That's good, right?