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[kittydesade]

... okay, no, I'm not doing any more of that practice until book review. Digging my heels in on that one, book.

Expressing purpose, using the verb stem ～に　行きます/来ます/帰ります.

先生に　あいに　行きます。
I will go and see my professor.

レストランに　ごはんを食べに　行きます。
I will go to a restaurant to have a meal.


田中：　明日　何を　しますか。
What are you doing tomorrow?
デパートに　くつを　買いに　いきます。
I'll go buy shoes in a department store.
そうですか。
Is that right?

The verb stem is the part of the verb that comes before ます. Thus, たべ is the stem of the verb たべます, and のみ is the stem of the verb のみます.

The verb stem + に expresses a specific purpose when used with the verb for coming, going, or returning.

The place can be stated either before or after the purpose. The particle に must be used for the place of destination because it modifies the main verb, and not the verb expressing the purpose.

こうえんに　あそびに　行きます。
I go to the park to play.
本を　読みに　図書館に　いきます。
I go to the library to read books.

に is also used for some nouns that indicate activities.
買い物に　行きます。
I'll go shopping.
りょこうに　行きます。
I'll go traveling.


I seriously need to keep writing down what I'm going to do or I will lose my fucking mind. I am doing too many damn projects at once and it is driving me batshit. On the other hand, I've made myself quit with the taking on all the crafts projects along with all the damn writing I have to do, so at least there's that. And thank god for the iSis because if I didn't have my to-do list reminders I would, again, lose my fucking mind. Or what's left of it.

This weekend seems like it's mostly writing and gaming. Friday will be gaming, I'm not cooking so it's everyone fending for him or her self. Well, I'll probably cook for me and Bri, but no one else can has. Mine. They don't want to weigh in or contribute, they don't have to. And if someone shows up with food for stone soup, well, I'll think of something. Más agua en la sopa, aquí viene otro. Una silla más, y más agua en la sopa. And if anyone actually knows that song I will probably be shocked and a little terrified. I've got writing to do, and I'll probably putter around on my wheel, since it looks like it'll be dry enough to get it home today. This weekend I might also buy some more t-shirts for tie-dye experiments, varying the order of certain steps and the amounts of things, but I won't do those experiments for at least two weeks.

Actually, when put like that, I have a very sane weekend ahead. Which will be good, because apart from writing and gaming and wheel putter I will be sleeping all the sleep there ever was. No sleep for any of the rest of you, it's all mine. I keep meaning to go to bed early and I do manage it some of the time, last night I got a whole extra 40 minutes. But other than that? No. And I'm still tired. And I'm still doing way too much shit. Also, I need knitting needles. And I need to take out all that knitting and start again, because I don't like doing arm warmers with bulky stuff. Even worsted-weight brown sheep. I have delicate wrists, dammit, I demand skinnier stuff.

Mientras que yo hago todo eso, posiblemente puedo pensar los colores que quiero teñir mi hilo. No voy a teñir este fin de semana, pero debo que preparar, decidir, eso. Tengo un poquito más de un tercero de una libra de hilo, todo de mi práctica de hilar, entonces no es muy bueno. Y tengo dos onzas, más o menos, de mi huso.

(Y necesito recordar eso vocabulario. huso es spindle, teñir es to dye, hilo es yarn. Hilar es to spin, y tejer is to knit. Guantas sin dedos... ¿necesito explicar? :P)

Yo quiero tejer unos guantas sin dedos con el hilo de mi huso. Pero, no sé de que color. Tengo dos o trés pares de guantas sin dedos negros, un par oliva, un par de guantas cobres, y todos son en tela para el invierno. Posiblemente un azul, o un moreno o morado. O los trés colores juntos. Vamos a ver. Oi, estoy tan cansada, y no puedo pensar en español mucho más. Japonés, creo, y luego escribiendo un poquito. O hilando.