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[kittydesade]

The first two exercises have to do with ages. So I will ... not be distracted by Human Target, first of all. Hrrm. Use characters, and make sentences with ages and then birth order.

Lily is 39. She is oldest. Lilyさんは　今　三十九さいです。　一番上です。
Rose is 27. She is youngest. Roseさんは　今　二十七さいです。　一番下です。

I am the oldest.　私は　一番上です。
My sister is the youngest.　私の妹は　一番下です。
My brother is the middle.　私の弟は　まん中です。

Nadia is the oldest. (I can't remember her age, hmm.) Nadiaさんは　一番上です。
Dale is 22. He is the middle.　Daleさんは　二十二さいです。　まん中です。
Katie is 16. She is the youngest. Katieさんは　十六さいです。　一番下です。


Oogh. That may be all I have brain for tonight. I was going to also talk some about names, things we use to define ourselves. How "tired and emotional" used to be a polite way to say someone was a lush, or a drunk, or any spectrum in between. How people used to be eccentric if you were rich or respected and 'mad' if you weren't, and now we have fifty different words for all the different ways that people don't conform to what's seen as a normal state of mind. There was a conclusion in all of this, but all I'm left with right now is a fuzzy headed feeling and a sense that we use words in such bizarre ways. We value them so deeply as definitions and ways to shape our identities, and yet we also toss them around with such carelessness. It's strange.

Anyway. Tired. Trans-Siberian Orchestra this weekend, which will be amazing fun. Human Target was wicked awesome, Guerrero was practically gleeful at the opportunity to do some crime, I thought. Very chipper psycho for hire, he is. I want to do some writing but I'm exhausted, I may just go to bed. Stuff developed today which... I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about just yet, but it's good stuff.

And I learned something today. A friend of mine who's been perusing self-help and life coaching sites, among others, looked at several and commented that a lot... almost all, really, of what they talk about doing is stuff we've been doing in Courtesan school. Looking at your patterns and changing them or using them to your advantage, breaking down achieving your goals into manageable steps, monitoring your mood and finding your triggers for various things like what makes you feel good and what makes you feel upset or unhappy. It's all stuff we do already. Just generally being mindful of things. Right now, though, I think I'm going to be mindful of the fact that I'm exhausted, not stringing words together well, and have been falling asleep at the helm all day. I don't have any deadlines that can't be just as easily worked on tomorrow.