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[kittydesade]

To give the reason for something, we can use the conjunction から.

どうしてパーテイーに来ないんですか。
Why aren't you coming to the party?

明日しけんがあるから、今日は勉強しなくちゃいけないんです。
I have to study today, because there will be an exam tomorrow.

When you want to mention not just one, but two (or more) reasons, you can use し　in place of から. 　し usually follows a predicate in the short form.

(reason)し, (reason)し, (situation).

日本語はおもしろいし、先生はいいし、　私は日本語の授業が大好きです。
I really like my Japanese class, because the Japanese language is interesting and our teacher is good.

家族から手紙がきたし、かれと電話で話したし、きのうはとてもいい日でした。
Yesterday was a great day -- a letter came from my family and I talked with my boyfriend on the phone.

国に帰りたいですか。
Do you want to go back home?
いいえ、日本のせいかつはたのしいし、いい友だちがいるし、帰りたくありません。
No. Life here in Japan is good, and I have good friends here. So I don't want to go back.

You can use just one し clause, implying that it is not the only reason for the situation.

ぶっかがやすいし、このまちのせいかつはらくです。
Life in this city is an easygoing one. Things are inexpensive, for one thing.

Sometimes the し clauses follow the description of the situation explained.

山下先生はいい先生です。　おしえるのが上手だし、しんせつだし。
Professor Yamashita is a great teacher. He is good at teaching, and he is kind.

Note that し　follows the short forms. In present tense sentences, this means that だ　appears with な-adjectives and nouns, but not　い-adjectives.


Oogh tired. Still have a bit to write, but... and if the power kicks off again I will be cranky. Although maybe that was just the AC kicking off because I turned the thermostat up. Hm.

So, there was this meme, and you ask for words and someone gives you five words that remind them of you, and then you say what the words remind you of. And I got these words:

Fierce Fierce. Fierce creatures. Ferocity... I've never seen as a negative. Fierce, to me, ties in with passion, with aggression in service of a cause or a goal or a reason. You are fierce because of something. In defense of something. Against something. I like to think I'm fierce about pursuing my goals, or in defense of something. I've known a lot of people I'd call fierce in pursuit of a goal, not as directed at any one person or thing in particular.

Jaguar Oh, that's easy. Ever since I was little I've read about, studied, known about the mesoamerican Jaguar figures of myth. Watched things change as they find new records, study the codices. Jaguar is a spiritual thing for me, both a warrior and a nurturer. Also a damn cool cat to be, in my opinion. If you hadn't figured that out already. ;)

Creative This is one of those things that I don't even know what it means anymore, other than defying convention. Going outside norms. I used to think of it as applying mostly to the arts. Now, I think maybe I just think of it as an ability to go, well, what if things didn't have to be this way. What if they could be this way instead. Which sounds like a very dismissive thing to say, but it isn't really, because people don't always do that. Normal and known is safe. Creative takes you off into new, unsafe directions. I like that.

Loyal See, this is where I start blushing. Not that you can see, 'cause, internet, but there you go. Loyalty. It's not so simple as being a yes-person, I think. It's got a lot to do with acceptance, being able to see a person's faults and assets, and say, you're one of my people. Or with principles, being able to see the advantages and the drawbacks, the positives and the negatives, and being able to say, this isn't perfect, but it's mine. I'm standing by this church, this faith, this organization, this country. Sometimes it's ... I'd say one-sided rather than misguided, but I don't believe the capacity for loyalty is ever a bad thing.

Protective There's two things I think of as far as being protective. One has to do with loyalty, the kind of protective where you stand with your friend, lover, child, parent, stranger, whoever, whatever, and you say, no. You shall not pass. You don't get to hurt this person. But there's a fine line between being protective of someone against harm that needs support and backup, and being smothering. Most of the time, I think, we manage to walk it pretty well.

I think that's all the time we have for tonight, folks. I have to say, I am glad with the way a couple of my Big Bangs are shaping up. I was really starting to dislike them, but I think I've managed to mostly fix them, or at least get them a good ways towards being fixed. Is a good feeling. I can run on just the mechanical knowledge until I find what made me interested in the story again, and then apply both like a hammer and beat it into shape, forging a better story. And on that note it is definitely bedtime because, awkward metaphor much?