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Place names: Match the Irish and English versions of these place names...
1. Béal Feirste -- Belfast
2. Trá Lí -- Tralee
3. Doire -- Derry
4. Port Láirge -- Waterford
5. Cill Airne -- Killarney
6. Gaillimh -- Galway
(And now I have Rocky Road to Dublin embedded in my thinkmeats.)

The preposition i + eclipsis
a) Say that you live in the places from the above exercise, e.g. Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBéal Feirste.
2. Tá mé i mo chónaí i dTrá Lí.
3. Tá mé i mo chónaí i nDoire.
4. Tá mé i mo chónaí i bPort Láirge.
5. Tá mé i mo chónaí i gCill Airne.
6. Tá mé i mo chónaí i cGaillimh.

b) Complete these sentences with i + place
1. Tá mé ag obair i pbanc. (ag obair - working)
2. Tá mé ag obair i cgaráiste.
3. Tá mé ag obair i siopa.
4. Tá mé ag obair i oifig.
5. Tá mé ag obair i Éire.

... I think I did that right. I still side-eye it terribly.


HAH. TAKE THAT MONGOLIAN DEATH PLAGUE. I KILL YOU WITH BOOZE AND VITAMINS AND MEDICINE AND MORE BOOZE-FILLED MEDICINE. FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR VIRUS MOTHER AND YOUR LITTLE PARAMECIUM TOO.

(Hey, look who remembered vocabulary from 9th grade biology.)

Hey, flist, speaking of Irish and my increasing need to review pronunciation when I hit the three chapter review (which will be soon at least), is there an Irish dub of The Boondock Saints? Because I feel like there really should be. Or would that be blasphemy and/or stupid Americanitis? And either which way, I feel a need to at least attempt to translate the movie into Irish now. Or, not now, but once I'm done going through this book and whatever other grammar books I can lay my hands on. Oh look the BBC has Irish language TV programs. Om nom nom.

No, seriously, I am a total dork who studies languages for fun and squees over finding TV programs in oh god is there Irish language Sesame Street? Because there should be.

Ahem. Right. Oof, okay, Big Bang people emailed, now I just actually need to finish up HBB and my outline for Nanonovel and survive a day at work. Install Dropbox and Spotify at work, which should be easy and will give me access to all the music ever. And, no, surprisingly I think that's it. I guess I'll give it until tomorrow and then start shredding Pretender Sidhe, which reminds me, I should separate that into a second draft for shredding. Delete all the outline crap, and then everyone can mark it all up and edit it and I'll have the first draft copy in case I want to go back and put something in. Um. Things and stuff.

Still a bit tired but actually feeling much, much better than I did on Friday. It's really impressive how fragile and snappy I was on Friday. Now I feel pretty much better, I've had a good weekend of rest, the apartment is cleaner, the food is decanted, the dishes are largely done. The boy's doing better. I haven't gotten sick yet. I got a pile of writing done yesterday and a pile of cleaning and fucked off entirely on Saturday. Slow steps. I wouldn't say I'm better even though I feel worlds better, it still won't take much of a hit to knock me down again. But I'm going to keep going. Shoulder to the boulder and pithy sayings like that, because I like who I am a lot better when I'm being an apprentice courtesan and a superhero in training than when I'm just sort of meandering along. Even if part of being an apprentice courtesan and a well-trained superhero is knowing when to rest. Rest break's coming to a finish.