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[kittydesade]

One more day, I think, of rote grammar exercises and then the next grammar point.

Sample paragraph: 私は　兄が　一人　います。　なまえは　トーマスです。　(Harry, stop possessing my Japanese book.) 二十五さいです。　父の　なまえは　ジョンです。　今　五十二さいです。

Okay, since Harry is already possessing the damn book. 私は　兄が　一人　います。　名前は　トーマスです。　三十五さいです。　母の　名前は　Margaretです。　六十二さいです。　私の父は　六十さいです。　名前は　Malcolmです。

私は　兄弟が　二人　います。　私の弟の名前は　ベンです。　二十二さいです。　私の妹の名前は　アンンアです。　二十さいです。　And my god I feel old now. When did my siblings get to be graduated from college and going to grad school and, yeesh.　


Typing in normal English when you've still got your Japanese keyboard on 'cause you haven't been paying attention is entertaining. Just saying.

So, this was interesting. It's an article on a certain dynamic between women in groups of women, feminist theory, and so on. Self-defeating attitudes that we adopt or adjust to. Group psychology. Group politics. It brings up a lot of interesting points, including the Magical Momma stereotype. One of my teachers fell into that stereotype, and I used to promise myself that I wouldn't. I developed arguments against it, pithy phrases and summaries of how and why to protect yourself from it. I used them so many times I forgot to use them on myself. Oops. But, the article overall is worth reading. It explains a lot of things, in some ways.

Also, Dick Cheney's looking at charges in Nigeria. I'm not sure what to make of that, but when the phrase "Dick Cheney" and "charges" came up the first thing I thought was 'war crimes.' Which says something. I'm not sure what, but I'm pretty sure it's not good.

On the other hand, I did my first embloggening today as a representative of my store! It turned out pretty well, apart from accidentally slipping into a mode of speech better suited to Spider Jerusalem. You may now enjoy the image of Spider Jerusalem sitting down to spin at a spinning wheel.

And I did dinner, and now I'm settling in to write, and I might be able to finish the first arm warmer on the Noro today. At which point I'll stop and switch back to the Brown Sheep to get those done and see how well they wash and how much that shrinks. That'll be nice and fun and so on. No, I'm running out of brain cells. Why do you ask?