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[kittydesade]

Infinitives used as nouns.
Mein Hobby ist Wandern. My hobby is hiking.
Frühmorgens ist dan Joggen toll. Jogging early in the morning is great.

An infinitive used as a noun is usually a gerund in English and always neuter in Deutsch.

Was ist schön? Laufen ist schön. Wandern ist schön. Tanzen ist schön. Hören Musik ist schön. Machen Musik ist auch schön! Schreiben ist schön.
Was ist toll? Machen gut Musik ist toll. ;) Gehen ins Konzert ist toll. Gehen ins Trans-Siberian Orchestra Konzert ist sehr toll.
Was soll Spaß machen? ... And now I run out of different things than I mentioned above. Um.
Was ist gesund? Wandern ist gesund. Essen Fru... oh, heh, theres a verb list at the bottom. Oops. Schwimmen ist gesund. Um. Fuckit. Essen Frühstück ist gesund. Trinken Wasser ist gesund.
Was macht dumm? ... of all of these? Fernsehen macht dumm. Faulenzen macht dumm.
Was macht fit? Schwimmen macht fit. I am NOT writing arbeiten macht anything right now. Wandern macht fit. Tanzen macht fit. Joggen macht fit.


... I'm going to deal with the Fragen from last week's wall o Deutsch tomorrow, I think. Too little time to go over it today.

I made a friend! Via lireavue, who did indeed keep throwing me links to the poor woman's journal until ka connected us. Go on, say it twice, you know you want to. The whole thing terribly amuses me, though. Hi new friend! I am prone to fits of hyper, post usually three times a day during a weekday with a different language each behind a cut that I'm studying, tend to ramble about either my writing or my arts projects, occasionally post links of randomness that amuse me, and take fits of political activity that usually die out when it turns out only a few people are as frothy at the mouth as I am. My userinfo, while out of date, is probably also still fairly representative. I never consider myself interesting and it always surprises me when people think I am.

So, yes! This happened. And about ten other things at once, too. Fortunately I managed not only to check in at Courtesan School, I also managed to update my writing schedule and my iSis with other stuff to do, so that when my brain finishes leaking out of my ears I can actually look these things up and remember what the hell I was doing. Because I am so very bad at that after I take these fits of hyperactivity. I'm not entirely sure if I should be worried about this fit of hyperactivity and on the lookout for a downswing, but I think it's mostly just due to everything happening at goddamn once. I swear, today's been that day where it's quiet for two hours and then all three lines ring at the same damn time.

(I swear a lot, too. Periodically.)

I'm sure I had something more interesting to go here, but now it's gone completely out of my head. Self, remember these things that you were going to do tonight: Steak and corn/other veggies for dinner, which is easy because it's mostly cooked already, Japanese, guitar, and then poke the writing schedule. Do not attempt to tackle any other projects until the weekend, even if you conceived of twenty of them today. Today is for just getting your weekday stuff done, and if you try to do ten things at once they will all be unfinished and you will be sad.

I think this is one of the things about being able to hit my limits and back away from them subsequently. I've realized (even if occasionally Kiki or someone needs to sit on me about it) that I've about hit my limit of things I can manage at once. This massive workload of writing crap, three languages, exercise, music, etc, and that's about as much as I can juggle in my life. It's good! It's a good thing, because I know I CAN. If I drop something out and replace it with something else, I know I can sustain it. The only problem is when I decide I've got fifty bright ideas and want to do all the things right the hell now. See: my brief flirtation with OMG I COULD PICK UP SINGING, TOO. No, self. No you can't. Not until some of your writing projects go bye bye. Mm, next year maybe I'll explore doing shorter writing projects and more non-writing projects. Or... something, I don't know, I'll see what happens next year!