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[kittydesade]

Ciarán and Dónall meet for the first time in a few years.
Ciarán: Dia dhuit, a Dhónaill. Conas tá cúrsai?
Dónall: Go maith. An bhfuil tú fós i do chónaí in árasán?
Ciarán: Níl. Tá mo theach féin agam anois.
Dónall: An bhuil tú póstaanois?
Ciarán: Níl. Cad fústa?
Dónall: Tá, le cúpla bliain anuas.
Ciarán: Ó, comhghairdeas. An bhfuil clann agat?
Dónall: Tá leanbh óg againn le bliain.

Bean Uí Shé: An bhfuil clann mhór agat, a Shéamais?
Séamas: Tá beirt mhac agus iníon againn.
Bean Uí Shé: Cén aois iad?
Séamas: Tá Cáit ocht mbliana d'aois. Tá Pól sé bliana d'aois agus tá dhá bhliain ag Nuala.
Bean Uí Shé: Tá beirt acu ar scoil mar sin?
Séamas: Tá.
Bean Uí Shé: Tá triúr mac againne.


... Holy shit Sons of Anarchy. I will say, this latest turn in S4 has, um. It's gotten bloody? But I don't feel as bad about this one as I have the others, I think because people are starting to let go of the idiot balls. Except Clay. He's gone and curled up around his Idiot Ball and is all "No! You can't take it away from me! Nyah!" I have to say, I do wonder which way Tig will jump if this becomes common knowledge. From the past three seasons I get the feeling he's equally pulled in both directions. Feel kind of sorry for the bastard. Not just because I'm currently still on my Kim Coates fix.

The Personhood Amendment was fucking defeated, thereby proving that people do still have some reason left. At this point I don't have coherent words for why this is such a bad idea, starting with the implications for all kinds of reproductive health and conception issues, going through what that means for women who miscarry and potential manslaughter convictions for women who behave in risky manners throughout their pregnancy and then miscarry or so on, what, reckless endangerment? It essentially shackles women to the role of baby carrier and gives them no freedoms as far as their reproductive systems at all, so the only recourse is to be celibate or turn lesbian or have babies. And the resultant pain, suffering, and risk to their life and health. And while I can respect the people who are pro-life out of respect for life, against murder as well as abortion and wanting to ensure that children have a meaningful and healthy lives as well as simply being born so on and so forth... I have little respect for most of the conservatives who use abortion as a hot-button issue to get elected, people who try to restrict women with the most stringent legislation possible as far as all stages of pre-natal grown of children, and then gut the welfare that might be needed to keep these children fed, gut the education system that would give these children a chance at a good job, a good life...

... ahem. Apparently I had words after all. So, yeah, there's that, I'm sure a lot of you have heard those arguments before. It still pisses me off.

Right. I've gotten a chunk of Nano done, hopefully later today I can get some editing done because I was way too exhausted last night to do much of anything except vomit words up on the screen and hope they were adequate. Did start a boy-witches thing last night, but I'm not sure I'm actually going to keep any of it, it's a sort of a Stephen King/Lovecraft/Covenant/made up thing involving a school for boy-witches. I don't even. And I may or may not have gotten my assignment for bigbang_mixup, because I got two usernames/email addresses and I'm not sure if the first one was right or the second. So. We'll see? I need to try and contact my OBB artist again and check in with her, and catch up on my other fic and other than that, holy crap I'm caught up. Not just on that but also on day job type stuff, too, which is equally amazing. Now I'm down to filing and making a last push to get everything vaguely in order before the mail order sale hits. Oof.

... This weekend is not going to help, now that I think about it. There's game one day and a day trip over to the Used Bookstore of Ginormousness the other day, and argh. At least game will probably mostly involve character creation. I can get a bunch of writing done while everyone else is character creating, I can do my own character creation and maybe this time come up with more of a dimensional character I feel comfortable playing instead of rehashing an old stereotype. And actually, now that I think about it, yes, I do have a lot of shit to do. But for once, out of the past several months, I actually feel okay to do all of it.