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[kittydesade]

GISELA: Hallo, Michael. Kannst du mir bitte deine Notizen lehen?
MICHAEL: Ja, gern.
GISELA: Das ist nett. Für die Klausur muss ich noch viel arbeiten.
MICHAEL: Klar, hier hast du sie. Kannst du sie morgen bitte wieder mitbringen?

MICHAEL: Moin, Moin, Melanie. Seit wann gehst du denn in eine Literatur-Vorlesung? Studierst du nicht Geschichte?
MELANIE: Nein, nicht mehr. Ich mache jetzt Germanistik.
MICHAEL: Ah, ja? Als Nebenfach?
MELANIE: Nein, als Hauptfach.
MICHAEL: Ach, wirklich? Du, möchtest du nachher Kaffee trinken gehen?
MELANIE: Ich kann leider nicht. Ich muss noch etwas lesen. Morgen habe ich ein Referat und bin nicht besonders gut vorbereitet.

Notes: studieren = to study a subject, to be a student, to attend college. machen = to do homework, or to major in. lernen = to study in the sense of doing homework, e.g. I'm studying the vocabulary words.

Fragen:
1. Warum möchte Gisela Michaels Notizen leihen? Sie musst lernen für die Klausur.
2. Warum muss Gisela noch viel lernen? Sie hat Klausur morgen.
3. Wann möchte Michael seine Notizen wiederhaben? Am morgen.
4. Warum geht Melanie jetzt in eine Literatur-Vorlesung? Sie macht Germanistik.
5. Was ist Melanies Hauptfach? Melanies Hauptfach ist Germanistik.
6. Was möchte Michael nachher machen? Michael möcht Kaffee trinken gehen.
7. Warum kann Melanie nicht mitgehen? Sie musst vorbereiten für (?) ein Referat.


Now that I've gotten through the chapter review.

Also, Oh Sarah Palin. Is the weather nice in your world? Because you keep making these sounds and they don't correspond to coherent, rational speech in any language I know, anyway. And I know a fair few of them.

I'm trying to be sympathetic. I know it sucks when people lump you in with the actions of one crazy person, I've dealt with the staring and the whispers because I wear black and favor knives and skulls and crossbones or whatever. Because I listen to KMFDM. And from what I know of the shooter, he wasn't directly affiliated with any one group nor was he suggested to do what he did, so much as he took a lot of violent rhetoric as social permission, plus whatever other factors might have been going on in his mind or brain chemistry and a 9mm handgun and went and shot up a political gathering. That's his choice. It's a jerkass choice, but it's still his choice.

But why would you ever invoke a... the persecution of a people centuries, maybe millenia old, and equate it to your own personal (and, I believe, inflated) martyrdom? If martyrdom isn't even too strong a word. She used the phrase "blood libel", for the curious, which I'm sure seemed to her like a very vivid and pithy phrase but which carries far more implications and reference and emotional weight than she seemed to understand. Why would you do that, Sarah Palin?

And why would you ever shout so loudly and so stridently about how it's not your fault if you didn't have some guilt in the first place, for that matter. Why are you making this about your persecution complex by invoking stronger imagery for yourself than you are for the victims? I read excerpts of her speech; the few good points or calls to action she had (we are stronger than this, we need to come together, etc) came off as platitudes, weaker than the rest and lost under the whining of "hey guyz, iz just wordz, why so serious?" Words matter, Sarah Palin. Choose yours with more care. Or just get better handlers who don't let you get in front of a video camera without aggressively and enthusiastically jamming both feet into your mouth. Good grief. How does she dress herself in the mornings?

Sigh.

The pasta recipe from yesterday, by the way, reheats just fine. Possibly it would reheat a little better if I added a little bit of milk for more moisture, but it was just fine stuck in a microwave and heated up. Nommy. Work today is not as bad as I feared, despite not having been in for two days. Yay post-Christmas slump?

Oogh. Tired. Mildly cranky. Sniffly, which, if I dug myself out of my damn apartment after a weekend of hiding only to get sick and have to stay in some more? I'm going to bite something. Trying to eat healthy, at least. And drinking lots of fluids and so on. I don't think the spice and tea place has ecinacea but I might go see. Not really willing to travel very far afield right now, work and home and that's about it. Ah well. I'll live.