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Russian often uses the они form of the verb without an explicit grammatical subject to indicate the passive voice or a generally held opinion.

У нас считают, что все американцы любят спорт. Here it is considered that all Americans love sports.

По телевизору всегда показывают как вы бегаете. On television they always show you running.

Образец:плавать -- Когда плавают? Обычно плавают летом.
1. кататься на лыжах: Когда катаются на лыжах? Обычно катаются на лыжах зимой.
2. заниматься аэробикой: Когда занимаются аэробикой? Обычно занимаются аэробикой утром.
3. кататься на водных лыжах: Когда катаются на водных лыжах? Обычно катаются на водных лыжах летом.
4. кататься на коньках: Когда катаются на коньках? Обычно катаются на коньках зимой.
5. играть в бейсбол: Когда играют в бейсбол? ... Я не знаю! Я думаю, обычно играют в бейсбол летом. Я не интересоваюсь (интересуюсь) бейсболом.
6. играть в хоккей: Когда играют в хоккей? Обычно играют в хоккей весной и зимой. Я думаю.
7. играть в футбол: Когда играют в футбол? ... Американский? Обычно играют в американский футбол
летом и осенью.
8. играть в баскетбол: Когда играют в баскетбол? ... Я не знаю.
9. отдыхать на природе: Когда отдыхают на природе? Обычно отдыхают на природе летом. Иногда отдыхают на природе весной или осенью. Здесь вечером есть обычно холодно в марте, апреле, октябре и ноябре.
10. ходить в походы: Когда ходут в походы? Обычно ходут в походы весной, летом или осенью.

I see the retaliatory strikes have begun. Prayers for Pakistan, and good luck to the investigators finding and stopping these attacks before they happen.

Here, in happier news I give you baby falcons.

It's Friday. I'm so glad it's Friday. I keep ... something. I think part of it is catching up on writing words and part of it is that in subtler ways I'm still adjusting to this new sleep schedule, but I keep running into thinking I have an extra hour when I don't. Which doesn't end up being a problem, but oi it's weird. On the plus side, I do feel rested and relaxed and ready to go. It's just, weird.

Tonight, there will be testing of the Campaign Cartographer and seeing if Norton really screwed things up or if it just made my evening a little less convenient. I'm debating whether or not I'm actually looking forward to that. On the one hand, the Cosmographer program is a shiny new toy that has starmaps of our actual galaxy. And you can make your maps in 3D, and you can make ship maps and global maps and star charts and and and. It is shiny and fucking awesome and I am looking forward to playing around with it. Much, much less so if Norton fucked it up and I have to go in and patch things up. Oh, Symantec, why do you suck so hard. No, seriously. You suck like an Electrolux.

The wall above my computer is both very tall and very empty. I kind of feel like I should put something on it, but I'm not sure what. Maybe just my other Akira wall scroll. Or I could move that wall scroll and start putting up small framed pictures. Debate. Although somehow I think mixing an Akira wall scroll with pictures of various celebrities admonishing me to write (what? I am totally planning on doing that at Dragon*Con if certain people are there) would just be weird, visually and ... psychologically? auralogically? Weird Feng Shui? Something, it would just be weird. So. I need to get a decorating scheme on my office area going. The boy is working all weekend, which means I have a block of time to pick up and put things up around the desk without him snickering at me and my obsessions. We mock because we love, really.

Friday. It's Friday the 13th, and we've got this thing called a Yarn Crawl going on. It's sort of like the Art Walks that have been going on downtown, which is basically where all the art galleries stay open a little later and people walk through them all and maybe collect goodies and OH MY GOD, NORTON, WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE DONE THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE. FUCK YOU. Ahem. Norton just asked me if I wanted to trust a file I just downloaded. Fucking Norton. Anyway. So the Yarn Crawl is basically a weekend where people are given a map and the opportunity to enter a raffle for a basket of donated yarn, and they go around to yarn shops, and the yarn shops do fun discounty things, and we're doing it and we're doing it on Friday the 13th and this is either a very good or a very bad idea. I can't tell which. I will, however, be wearing my skull do-rag and my Yarrrrn shirt.