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[kittydesade]

um
has other meanings but for the moment used with hours, at the hour of, etc.


Prepositions which take the Dative
aus
out of; to come, be from
aus Kanada
aus Deutschland
aus Russland
aus der Seele (from the soul)
aus der Verwesung (from corruption)

außer
besides; except for
außer dem Höllehund
außer der Gitarre
außer französisch
außer dem Meuchelmörder
außer der M&amul;dchen



Aww, that's so cute. German has two words for assassin and both of them are gendered.

Dragging out the Faust did help, not only with the learning of the prepositions but also with the realizing, hey, with the help of a dictionary I could probably understand this. Which means it's apparently the day for that because I was really, really startled by the ease with which I read the first Russian email exercise thing. I'm pretty sure it wasn't that easy to look at all those words and understand what they meant the first time! Which, yes, duh, of course it wasn't, I've had two and a half to three years of study since then, but it's still trippy. Learning, not just how to read and speak and write in another language, but that I can.

Ahem. Meanwhile. I have work to do, and cannot glee about the Anne Rice vs Stephanie Meyer catfight that seems to be brewing, so says Yahoo. No, seriously you guys, that is the most hilarious thing ever and I want to make all the popcorn and sit back and laugh, but I have shipping and writing to do. But it's so funny.

Oof. So, right now I have to finish this coda scene in HBB and then go over it all and make sure all my Chekhov's guns are in place. Because there's a couple that could use moving to a more prominent position on the wall. And, you know? I subscribe to the Stephen King archaeology theory of writing. There's a dinosaur there, and if you're lucky you can get 60-70% of the skeleton. You never see the whole thing. But if you're lucky, and if you're careful or if you go back to it and keep working on it often enough, you can get quite a bit. Everything I've ever written in the Black Ice world comes out 80-90% close. It is quite possibly not the best, but the closest to how I picture it series of stories I've ever written. Which bodes well for Nano and makes me feel a lot better about my writing.

So damn much to do. Writing, checking this in, then finishing up what I can in the day before I go grocery shopping. Then, um. Yeah, I don't even know. But my electronic brain does, actually, and that's a big help. I might even manage to get to bed on time tonight. I actually got most of my writing done by now, so that should help me get to bed on time. Get up, start writing, and do it all at the proper hour it's supposed to be done. Woot!